President-elect Donald Trump said on his social media platform yesterday that he plans to declare a national emergency and use military assets for mass deportations, report Charlie Savage and Michael Gold of The New York Times.
What Trump could do in his first few days in office and beyond gets a closer look from Calder McHugh and Betsy Woodruff Swan of Politico. And in Forbes, Edward Segal writes that Trump’s plans would "spawn a variety of crisis situations for companies and organizations."
Andrew Lokenauth, founder of The Finance Newsletter, offers a series of planning steps for business leaders, Segal points out. They include analyzing workforce exposure, developing contingency plans, and advocating policy positions, among others.
Andrew Kreighbaum and Rebecca Rainey of Bloomberg Law take a closer look at how the Trump administration’s plans could affect businesses.
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‘DRAMATICALLY HIGHER’ — Raids and deportations could have a devastating impact on Pennsylvania’s agriculture industry, Ivey DeJesus of PennLive reports. Matt Egan and Maya Blackstone of CNN Business widen the lens, noting that mass deportations likely would increase grocery prices. "If you take away [foreign-born] workers, you’re not going to have production," said Chuck Conner, president and CEO of the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives. "There’s only one way prices are going to go. They’re going to go dramatically higher."
DACA RESILIENCE — Immigrant advocates are urging Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients to renew immediately, reports April Rubin of Axios. "Business leaders will also have to show leadership for their workers, they will have to show leadership for members of their community who are part of the workforce," said Areli Hernandez of the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles. Meanwhile, DACA recipient Alondra Orozco’s inability to get a nursing license in Missouri [amid a significant nursing shortage] has garnered attention, reports Angelina Walker of Nurse.org.
EXPLOITATION — Some staffing agencies are facilitating the exploitation of unauthorized labor — and taking the hit in receiving companies’ stead when investigators arrive, Steve Eder, Danielle Ivory and Marcela Valdes report in The New York Times. The team homes in on BaronHR, where former employee Yesenia Murillo said the company and its clients used workers’ desperation to put them in dangerous jobs.
‘WELCOME THE STRANGER’ — Mary Grace Ketner shares stories from the book she edited, "Traveling Mercies: Encounters with Asylum Seekers," with David Martin Davies of Texas Public Radio. Ketner believes the work will continue: "It’s communities of faith [being called] to welcome the stranger, to feed the hungry, and that’s simply what we do. It might just be a higher calling for many people who will continue to do what their faith tells them to do." In Arizona, welcome is ongoing despite uncertainties, reports Ryan Fish of KGUN 9.
COOKING WITH LOVE — Immigrant chef Marlene Rojas persevered through challenges to create her business, reports Wendy Reyes of KALW. Rojas migrated to the U.S. at 16 and started working long shifts in fast-food restaurants. Years later, she found relief in and assistance from Oakland Bloom, a nonprofit that helps mostly working-class immigrants and women of color start their own food businesses. Now her business, Tsiri, is a place for community, safety and an ancestral Mexican taste of home.
