Beto has always been a voice for the marginalized—just because he no longer is a Presidential candidate, he still is an amazing force for good.
Earlier this week, he threw his support behind Flip the Texas House, an organization that grew out of his Senate campaign. See poopdogcomedy’s diary on this effort to flip the Texas State House
Today—Beto is condemning McKinsey for their active role in facilitating Trump’s hateful treatment of asylum seekers.
Propublica revealed how closely linked McKinsey has been in executing Trump’s plans on immmigrants: www.propublica.org/…
But the money-saving recommendations the consultants came up with made some career ICE staff uncomfortable. They proposed cuts in spending on food for migrants, as well as on medical care and supervision of detainees, according to interviews with people who worked on the project for both ICE and McKinsey and 1,500 pages of documents obtained from the agency after ProPublica filed a lawsuit under the Freedom of Information Act.
Let that sink in—the money saving recommendations were to cut back on FOOD and MEDICAL CARE.
McKinsey also looked for ways to skirt due process and speed up deportations
McKinsey’s team also looked for ways to accelerate the deportation process, provoking worries among some ICE staff members that the recommendations risked short-circuiting due process protections for migrants fighting removal from the United States.
Beto has a long history of speaking out on the cruelty of detention centers. Here is a diary I wrote earlier on Beto’s leadership that led to the closure of Tornillo Beto On Child Detention Centers: Beyond Words--Actions & Tornillo Closure Result I am glad to to see he is still in the fight.
Abuses such as this are ingrained into the today’s Trump-run world. Trump’s administration won’t investigate and stop such practices—they are behind it instead.
We must defeat Trump.