House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Sunday denied that President-elect Trump’s mass deportation plan could cost trillions of dollars, though said that there is no better investment than restoring the safety and security of the country.
Johnson made the remarks during an appearance on NBC’s “Meet the Press” when he was asked about the border crisis and grocery prices, the two issues that Trump says helped him win the election.
“I cannot think of a better dollar for dollar investment than to restore the security and the safety of the country,” Johnson said. “We’ve had a wide-open border for four years and millions upon millions of illegal persons. We have dangerous illegals in the country, criminals who have already committed crimes here, violent crimes against American citizens.”
The speaker cited crime and “the untold humanitarian cost in terms of trafficking and fentanyl deaths” in the U.S. as important reasons to tackle border security, saying, “getting rid of that criminal element … is something the American people want us to do.”
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President Trump tours a section of the border wall in San Luis, Arizona, on June 23, 2020. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci, File)
“The number one job of the federal government is protecting the citizenry,” he said. “And when you have a wide-open border, you don’t have safety, security or even sovereignty, for that matter. President Trump is going to follow through on his campaign promises and the promises that we all made on the campaign trail. It costs money to do that. But there is a small investment in terms of what it costs us.”
House Speaker Mike Johnson appeared on NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday and said Trump’s mass deportation plan was a “small investment” to restore safety and security to the country. (Getty Images, File)
When asked whether the plan would come with a price tag in the trillions of dollars, Johnson rejected the notion.
“It won’t cost trillions of dollars. I think we don’t yet know the dollar figure,” he said. “But I will tell you that the American people are going to support that effort. And we’re going to begin with the most dangerous elements. And you’re going to see a dramatic change in the country because of it.”
Johnson did not provide an estimated cost for the deportation plan.
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Regarding grocery prices, Johnson said those costs would unquestionably come down under Trump with the return to “fiscal sanity” and “common sense.”
Johnson said that Congress and the Trump administration will “turn the economic engines back on” like during the first Trump term when lawmakers “reduced the tax burden on the American people, but even more importantly, the regulatory burden.”
“That’s going to be a major theme of the upcoming administration in this Congress, because if you release the red tape, you unleash the free market again. And that’s good for everybody,” he said.
In a recent statement, Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen defended President Trump’s controversial mass deportation plan, calling the estimated $114 billion price tag a “small investment” in order to “restore security and safety to our country.”
Nielsen emphasized that the administration’s priority is to crack down on illegal immigration and remove those who have entered the country unlawfully. She argued that the cost of deporting millions of undocumented immigrants is necessary in order to protect American citizens and uphold the rule of law.
Critics of the plan have raised concerns about the financial burden it would place on taxpayers and the humanitarian implications of forcibly removing millions of individuals from their homes. However, supporters of the mass deportation plan believe that it is a necessary step towards securing the country’s borders and preventing further illegal immigration.
President Trump has made immigration enforcement a key pillar of his administration’s agenda, and it appears that his administration is willing to invest significant resources in order to achieve its goals. Whether the benefits of the mass deportation plan will justify its high cost remains to be seen.
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EARLY NEXT WEEK, WE WILL FIND OUT EXACTLY WHAT “mass deportation” means to Donald Trump, Stephen Miller, and the gang. But as I’ve tried to anticipate and report on what is likely to come, I keep going back to a piece of writing that awakened us to another great unknown. It wasn’t an article on immigration—it was about climate change.
In 2017, New York magazine published “The Uninhabitable Earth,” an essay exploring how famine, economic collapse, and a sun that cooks us could wreak havoc on the Earth. The author, David Wallace-Wells, told the story in a novel way. He spoke to scientists to get beyond, in his words, the “timid language of scientific probabilities.” The goal was to go deeper on communicating how dire individual threats really were by examining both what they would mean for us and what we would have to do to prepare for them.
My hope today is to do something similar. I have asked seven important stakeholders in different spaces around the country to share their most pressing concerns on mass deportation as Trump takes power once again.
Rep. Castro chaired the Congressional Hispanic Caucus during the second half of Trump’s term, held the first rally in the country against family separation in 2018, led delegations on border and detention center visits, and successfully pushed legislation to block emergency border wall funding—legislation that Trump vetoed.
Castro: There are long memories in San Antonio and around the country of the last two mass deportation campaigns where between one and two million Hispanic American citizens ended up being deported to Mexico during the Great Depression and with Operation Wetback in 1954. So my greatest concern is that this will turn into an ugly dragnet that will rope in people who have a right to be in this country and folks like DACA recipients who have been here almost all of their lives and are functionally Americans and are going to find themselves in a strange land.
The pastor and immigrant rights activist was a key voice in a Chicago Tribune piece I featured at the end of the first newsletter; she chose to end in-person Spanish-language services at her church because of fears over mass deportation. Parishioners now attend Spanish-language services on Zoom to protect her largely immigrant flock.
Lozano: My main concern is for mixed-status families [those families with members here legally and unlawfully]. Some people say it’s all talk. Well we don’t know that. It’s the fear and anxiety that really preys on us. We worry about what’s going to happen to our families, to our children if there is a factory raid, and the kids are in school.
People are getting doorbell cameras to know who is at the door, and we’re telling them, Don’t let people in, keep the doors locked. We hold “Know your rights” meetings because you have the right not to let someone into your house without a warrant from a judge.
This is a sanctuary city, and Chicago police said they will not cooperate with immigration requests. This has always been a sanctuary church, even during the pandemic, where people could worship together but apart. This time, it’s not a virus, it’s racism.
In 2006, when they ramped up work raids after 9/11, [human rights activist] Elvira Arellano was caught cleaning planes in O’Hare airport, arrested, and put in deportation proceedings. She ended up asking our church for sanctuary and defying her deportation because she said she was a worker not a criminal. She stayed in our church for a year.
During Trump’s first term, Francisca Lino, a mother of five U.S. citizens, whose husband is a citizen, was put in deportation proceedings and lived in our church for three years, going home when Joe Biden was elected. Now she asks ‘Que me va pasar a mi, yo tengo mucho miedo’—“What’s going to happen to me? I’m very scared.” She has a February 13 immigration meeting, when Trump will be president.
Both women are still part of the church. I tell them we have to have faith.
Krauze is a native of Mexico and one of the most respected Spanish-language journalists in the country. In 2018, he became the first journalist from a U.S. outlet chosen to moderate a presidential debate in Mexico.
Krauze: My main concern is whether Mexico is prepared for what lies ahead. Even in an optimistic scenario, Trump’s punitive policies could lead to an unprecedented number of deportations of Mexicans who have built lives in the United States. These are individuals who have established families and businesses, pay their taxes on time, and have sent their children to college. They are not only Americans but exemplary ones—except for a piece of paper.
Now they may be in the crosshairs of the new administration’s deportation machinery. If these people are deported en masse, Mexico will need to find a way to receive them. Easier said than done. The sudden return of a community of this size and with these characteristics presents a multifaceted challenge. Mexico is already a nightmare for Central American migrants and others crossing northward. Organized crime operates sophisticated and voracious extortion networks. What, for instance, awaits an entrepreneur from southern Texas, Michigan, or Arizona who suddenly finds himself deported? To think that criminals are not preparing to exploit this tragedy to its fullest is either naive or cruel.
Although the Mexican government has made efforts to hastily prepare, I fear these will prove insufficient and ineffective. The result could be an unimaginable humanitarian crisis on both sides of the border.
The deputy director of federal advocacy for the immigrant youth-led network United We Dream, Macedo do Nascimento lives in Baltimore and is an undocumented activist leader. She, like other advocates in the Washington D.C. area, has been preparing for possible “showcase” raids in Maryland and Virginia since the idea was floated by the Trump transition team.
Macedo do Nascimento: It’s 100 percent a concern that Trump will target activists at protests and public events. During Trump’s first term, I was at some of the Black Lives Matter protests and we all saw how aggressively they fought back against that.
Personally, I don’t know that it would stop me from going to protest but we take extra precautions—we don’t bring our phones, we write phone numbers on our arms. We want to be responsive for inauguration, there’s a people’s march, but we heard DHS will be doing raids in the D.C. area, so we fear we will be targeted. And we don’t want to be doing their jobs for them bringing a bunch of undocumented people where they will know we will be. So we’re having a conversation on how to protect ourselves, while not being intimidated. There’s a balance to reach there.
A senior fellow at the American Immigration Council, Reichlin-Melnick is one of the top immigration law experts.
Reichlin-Melnick: The first [concern] is ICE going rogue. When you see the recent raids in Bakersfield, California, you realize these enforcement efforts are independently structured, they’re run by individual sectors and field offices, like a police precinct. That makes the Trump administration running a public relations campaign about mass deportation more difficult than they believe because they’re not going to be holding the hand of every ICE officer in a world where there are cameras on every corner. It’s one thing to write a memo directing them to carry out enforcement, it’s another entirely to expect agents to perfectly follow those directives in ways that are TV friendly.
Second, the administration wants to expand detention. But the private companies that run these centers are focused on cost cutting, and one thing they’re terrible at is offering health care. Private prisons tend to be low bid for health contractors, and the providers they use tend to be the same that do health care for the general prison system. Many of those companies have seen scandals through the years where we’ve seen basic health problems neglected, medication not provided, and many instances of people who died because of low quality health care in prison and detention.
When you’re detaining children, things can go wrong, even if the Trump administration is acting in good faith. With overcrowding, it’s easy for people to fall through the cracks, ignored as they slowly die, which was the case with 16-year-old Carlos Gregorio Hernández Vásquez. [Editor’s note: Footage from ProPublica showed the agonizing final moments of Hernández Vásquez’s time in border patrol custody in south Texas, where he died in May 2019. He was found to have the flu and complications from other infections.]
At a time when it seems like Latinos and immigrants are under fire, business groups and Hispanic small businesses are seen as key bellwethers within the community. Rodriguez, the chief operating officer of the Greater Austin Hispanic Chamber of Commerce, is one of the key local leaders who belongs to the national United States Hispanic Chamber of Commerce.
Rodriguez: As a Latina and small business owner, what bothers me most are the social implications for families and the effect on future generations of Latinos, who as of 2021 are the largest population in Texas. Latinos who believed they were naturalized citizens or here legally are looking at each other asking, Am I safe? Am I next? Are my children safe?
Mass deportation would cripple the Texas economy, no matter your industry. A Trump-supporting dairy farmer outlined on CNN how the country’s food supply could only go two days without the assistance of undocumented workers before everything went awry. We’ve never needed the support of workers more and the likelihood of people leaving is terrifying.
Carlos Garcia is one of the most respected immigrant rights leaders in the nation, particularly in Arizona, where he’s worked to stop the deportations of individuals for the last seventeen years. He serves as the national capacity director for Mijente, a digital hub for Latino and Chicano individuals.
Garcia: What’s keeping me up is: Are our people going to be inspired and willing to fight back? Our job is to inspire that. The only way mass deportations happen is if we don’t fight back. People are going to suffer. But my focus is looking inward towards our community, rather than guessing what Trump is going to do.
I started my work during the [George W.] Bush era, fighting [Sheriff Joe] Arpaio, and now we’re taking on Trump. But after fighting SB1070, Arizona passed an anti-immigrant ordinance last year. The new Maricopa County sheriff, Jerry Sheridan, was Arpaio’s deputy and wants to bring back tent cities. So what we have called victories over the last decade, have been rescinded. Now we have a senator in Ruben Gallego who is sponsoring Laken Riley and acting just like [former Sen. Kyrsten] Sinema was. When you see those conditions, you think people will run for the hills. Instead, there’s a ‘let’s get back in the trenches’ mentality.
We know from the Arpaio and [Barack] Obama days that those whose deportation cases we successfully fought will probably be the first people targeted. That’s why I’m helping build our deportation defense team, a rapid response team of regional organizers around the country. In the past, people would sign their deportation form because they were scared their puppy was home alone. So we’re creating plans: If something happens to me, this is where you can get my keys because I have a puppy at home. Here’s a letter to go pick up my kids if I get picked up by immigration agents. Here are funds to pay for bail if I get arrested.
It’s important to keep reporting the gulf between the administration’s words and the reality of what’s happening. The Washington Post is out Thursday with a deep look, noting that incoming border czar Tom Homan wants to prioritize deporting 1.4 million immigrants who have received deportation orders. But ICE data shows nearly half of that pool is ineligible to be sent home because they were granted a reprieve or deferral, or because their home countries won’t take them back. The administration will surely try to deport them anyway, but these are some of the obstacles they will face in the attempt.
In light of recent discussions about potential mass deportations, I reached out to seven experts in various fields to get their insights on what keeps them up at night. Here are their thoughts:
1. Immigration Law Expert: “I worry about the impact that mass deportations could have on families and communities, as well as the strain it could put on our already overburdened immigration system.”
2. Mental Health Professional: “I am concerned about the psychological toll that mass deportations could have on individuals who are forcibly removed from their homes and separated from their loved ones.”
3. Human Rights Advocate: “I fear that mass deportations could lead to violations of human rights and exacerbate existing inequalities and injustices within our society.”
4. Social Worker: “I worry about the practical challenges of providing support and resources to individuals and families who are affected by mass deportations, and the long-term impact it could have on their well-being.”
5. Education Specialist: “I am concerned about the disruption to schools and educational systems that could result from mass deportations, as well as the potential trauma experienced by students who are impacted.”
6. Community Organizer: “I fear the division and fear that could be sown within communities as a result of mass deportations, and the breakdown of trust and relationships that could follow.”
7. Policy Analyst: “I am worried about the broader implications of mass deportations on our economy, labor force, and social fabric, and the challenges it could pose for policymakers in addressing these complex issues.”
These experts provide valuable insights into the multifaceted concerns surrounding mass deportations, highlighting the need for thoughtful and compassionate approaches to immigration policy. It is crucial that we consider the human impact of these decisions and work towards solutions that uphold the dignity and rights of all individuals.
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Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., on Sunday urged his congressional Republican colleagues to prioritize sending more money to the Trump administration to help the president with his mass deportation plan.
“Here’s the question for the Republican Party. We talk about doing this, but we don’t have the resources. We haven’t given the Trump team the resources,” Graham said in an interview on NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”
Mass deportation was one of President Donald Trump’s biggest refrains on the campaign trail. In his stump speech, he repeatedly promised to “launch the largest deportation operation in the history of our country,” often saying he would deport all of the 11 million undocumented immigrants estimated to be living in the U.S.
Immediately after the election, Trump dismissed concerns about how much this effort would cost, telling NBC News in a November post-election interview, “It’s not a question of a price tag.”
He added then, “It’s not — really, we have no choice. When people have killed and murdered, when drug lords have destroyed countries, and now they’re going to go back to those countries because they’re not staying here, there is no price tag.”
But in recent weeks, Trump’s appointed border czar, Tom Homan, has told conservative media that Congress needs to appropriate more money for the effort for Trump’s campaign promise to be fulfilled.
Homan said “$86 billion is the minimum” during an interview on Fox Business’ “Sunday Morning Futures” in December, adding: “This operation is going to be expensive to begin with, but in the long run, there’s going to be huge tax savings for the American taxpayer.”
In a November Fox News interview, Homan said, “We’ve got to have the resources to do the job.”
It was a point Graham emphasized on Sunday, telling “Meet the Press” moderator Kristen Welker, “We need to give Tom Homan the money now to execute the plan that he’s come up with, and without congressional funding, this is going to hit a wall.”
Graham also endorsed the notion of using the reconciliation process to fund Trump’s plan, which allows the Senate to pass certain tax and funding-related bills with a simple majority.
“So we need to do two bills in reconciliation. The first bill should be $100 billion for the border, $200 billion for national security — put those points on the board. Give Tom the tools he needs to execute a mass deportation strategy,” Graham said.
Homan has said he’ll use additional funding to pay for more Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and more detention beds, but even with those efforts, experts have cast doubt on the administration’s ability to deport over 10 million people, especially in the space of just one presidential term.
Graham on Sunday seemed to agree that it would be logistically hard to deport everyone living in the U.S. illegally.
“I’m not so sure they’re going to deport 11 million people,” he said. But he pointed to certain groups of undocumented immigrants who could be prioritized for removal, including those who have been convicted of other crimes.
“He said they’re going to deport people here that are part of gangs that are criminals,” Graham said, adding that there are hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants who have been convicted of “serious crimes.”
In recent years, the topic of mass deportation has become a hot-button issue in political discussions. Many politicians and policymakers have proposed mass deportation as a solution to address the issue of undocumented immigrants living in the United States. However, one common argument that is often brought up in opposition to mass deportation is the lack of resources available to carry out such a large-scale operation.
While the idea of mass deportation may sound appealing to some who believe in stricter immigration policies, the reality is that the logistics of carrying out such an operation are incredibly complex and costly. In order to deport millions of undocumented immigrants, the government would need to allocate significant resources towards hiring more immigration enforcement officers, building more detention centers, and coordinating with other countries to facilitate the deportation process.
Furthermore, the legal challenges that would arise from mass deportation would be immense. Many undocumented immigrants have lived in the United States for years and have established families and communities here. Deporting these individuals would likely result in a flood of legal challenges and appeals, further straining an already overburdened immigration court system.
In the end, while some may talk about mass deportation as a solution to the issue of undocumented immigration, the reality is that the resources needed to carry out such an operation are simply not available. Instead of focusing on unrealistic and costly proposals, policymakers should work towards comprehensive immigration reform that addresses the root causes of illegal immigration and provides a pathway to legal status for those already living in the country.
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The Trump administration won’t be able to remove every undocumented migrant inside the United States, and the success of its promised mass deportation plan is “going to be based on what Congress gives us,” the administration’s new “border czar” Tom Homan told ABC News.
“I’m being realistic,” Homan said in an interview with ABC “This Week” co-anchor Martha Raddatz. “We can do what we can with the money we have. We’re going to try to be efficient, but with more money we have, the more we can accomplish.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement doesn’t currently have enough funding from Congress to detain all of the undocumented immigrants that the Trump administration says it hopes to arrest, Homan said, so the scope of its enforcement operations is dependent on the scope of funding from Congress.
Trump Administration ‘Border Czar’ Tom Homan talks with Martha Raddatz of ABC News, Jan. 24, 2025.
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“The more money, the better I’m going to do,” he said.
Watch more of Martha Raddatz’s interview with Tom Homan Sunday on ABC’s ‘This Week’
Homan said success comes down to this: “Take as many public safety threats off the street as possible.”
U.S. Airmen and U.S. Customs and Border Protection Agents guide illegal aliens onto a e C-17 Globemaster III at the Tucson International Airport, Ariz., Jan. 23, 2025.
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That includes deporting “every illegal alien gang member in this country, including Tren de Agua,” the Venezuelan cartel, he added.
“When we see the crime rate from illegal aliens go down, that’s success,” he said. “Every public safety threat removed [from] this country is success. Every national security [threat] we find and remove from the country is a success.”
A photo distributed by the White House shows some of the 75-80 Guatemalan nationals who were repatriated from El Paso, Texas on a military transport plane, Jan. 23, 2025.
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In the interview airing Sunday, Homan said the U.S. government for the first time ever used military aircraft to transport migrants back to their home country, and it will now be a daily occurrence.
According to U.S. officials, the U.S. military on Thursday flew more than 150 migrants to Guatemala on two separate flights.
In a recent statement, President Trump’s newly-appointed “border czar” has emphasized the importance of a realistic approach to immigration policy. The czar, who has been tasked with overseeing the administration’s efforts to address the crisis at the southern border, stressed that any mass deportation plan would require cooperation from Congress in order to be successful.
The czar acknowledged the challenges that come with implementing such a plan, citing logistical and legal hurdles that must be overcome. He emphasized the need for a comprehensive approach that takes into account the complexities of the immigration system and the realities on the ground.
While the administration has made immigration enforcement a top priority, the czar made it clear that success in this area will ultimately depend on Congress taking action to address the underlying issues driving illegal immigration. He called for bipartisan cooperation to find solutions that are both effective and humane.
As the debate over immigration policy continues to heat up, the czar’s comments serve as a reminder of the need for a pragmatic and collaborative approach to this complex issue. Only by working together can we hope to achieve meaningful and lasting reform.
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Farmers have begun raising concerns about the potential impact of President Donald Trump’s mass deportations on their operations, but the president’s nominee for agriculture secretary, Brooke Rollins, said any issues stemming from a lost labor force are “hypothetical.”
If farms are affected by mass deportations, she and other administration officials would “hopefully solve some of these problems,” Rollins said during her nomination hearing in front of the U.S. Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry Thursday. When a senator remarked he hoped the issues caused by mass deportations were hypothetical, Rollins said, “I do, too.”
These comments stand in contrast with those of other Trump policy officials regarding mass deportations. In an interview with The New York Times in 2023, Stephen Miller, now a deputy chief of staff in the White House, said the deportations would have a major impact: “Mass deportation will be a labor-market disruption celebrated by American workers.”
Donald Trump says he’ll deport millions of undocumented workers, including many who work in the agriculture industry. Kamala Harris publicly supports a path to citizenship for farmworkers but espouses tough border policies.
Before Trump was elected, experts and farmworker rights advocates said mass deportations could lead to the agriculture industry’s collapse. Nationwide, an estimated 42% of farm workers were undocumented in 2022, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Economic Research Service.
Given how long farms have relied on undocumented labor, no other workforce currently exists that could replace unauthorized workers.
Rollins said Trump would not forget about farmers’ needs when implementing his deportation plans. While she agreed with the policies, she said she would listen to farmers and act accordingly, likely by augmenting the H-2A program, which brings foreign workers into the U.S. temporarily to pick crops. The program is run by the U.S. Department of Labor.
“The president’s vision of a secure border and mass deportation at a scale that matters is something I support,” Rollins said during Thursday’s hearing. “You may argue that is in conflict” with my duties to support agriculture, she added, but, “having both of those as key priorities, my job is to work with the secretary of labor on the H-2A program.”
The H-2A program is rife with well-documented abuse and wage theft. There have already been warnings that increased use of the program could overwhelm the government and negatively impact workers’ rights.
A new GAO report warns that rapid growth of H-2A program could impact workers’ rights. These workers might be even more important under a second-term Donald Trump, who supported the program in the past.
Rollins was also asked if she thought deporting farmworkers could increase food prices, as Trump campaigned on the high cost of groceries. She again said that was a hypothetical issue.
While food prices have outstripped the rate of inflation in recent years, one reason food has remained relatively affordable in the U.S. is because farm labor can be cheap. In the Times interview, Miller said Americans would replace the deported workers and “be offered higher wages with better benefits to fill these jobs.”
Rollins and Republican senators on the Senate’s agriculture committee emphasized her rural roots and her time in 4H, but Rollins does not have extensive experience in the agriculture industry. Multiple times, she told senators that she looked forward to learning more about an issue they asked about, including the increase in bird flu among poultry and livestock.
She repeatedly said Thursday she would rely on data to help drive decision-making. But, when discussing undocumented labor on farms, she said no one knew how many people might be affected by Trump’s mass deportations.
“We don’t know, first of all, who ‘they’ are,” Rollins said, putting air quotes around “they.” “We all throw numbers around. 40%, 50%, 60%. The answer is we just don’t know.”
While the exact figure may not be known, the U.S. Department of Labor publishes a survey with well-regarded and oft-cited data on the number of undocumented farmworkers. According to the survey, about 40% of America’s 2 million farmworkers are not authorized to work in the country.
Several agricultural industries rely on undocumented labor. For instance, dairy farms are not eligible for H-2A visa labor — often trumpeted as a labor solution — and often do not ask about employees’ statuses. The meatpacking industry, subjected to immigration raids under the first Trump administration, also uses undocumented labor.
One of the largest meatpacking companies in the country, Tyson Foods, told Investigate Midwest it would not be affected by any mass deportations, however.
“Tyson Foods is strongly opposed to illegal immigration, and we fully participate with the federal government’s E-Verify and IMAGE programs,” a Tyson Foods spokesperson said. “We employ 120,000 team members in the United States, all of whom are required to be legally authorized to work in this country and any enforcement against undocumented workers would not have an impact on our company.”
45% of hired farm workers were undocumented in 2017. Experts say the consequences of mass deportations under a second-term Trump could lead to lasting higher grocery prices and the collapse of the agriculture system.
Near the end of Rollins’ nomination hearing, Sen. Adam Schiff, a California Democrat, asked Rollins how farms would replace their workforce if mass deportation plans materialized.
“Americans don’t want to do that work,” he said. “It’s frankly too backbreaking, so who is going to work the farms?”
Rollins responded by saying, “President Trump ran and was overwhelmingly elected on the priority of border security and mass deportation.” Trump’s margin of victory in November was the fourth-smallest since 1960, at 1.62%, according to PBS. “The American people have asked for a secure border and a system where they do not have to be concerned with the millions and millions that crossed here illegally and brought a lot of strife and unsafe communities to America.”
She added there might need to be changes made to the H-2A program to address a lost workforce.
“I will work around the clock with our new labor secretary, if she’s confirmed,” she said.
Then, Schiff asked, “If they’re gone, who’s going to do that work?”
“As these processes and programs are being implemented under this new administration and with the full support of the majority of Americans,” Rollins replied. “I think that we — as the leaders in agriculture, myself as the leader at USDA, you on this committee as well as others on the committee — that we will work together to understand and hopefully solve some of these problems.
“The dairy cattle have to be milked,” she added, “but if we have a mass deportation program underway, then there is a lot of work that we need to do through the labor department and working with Congress to solve for a lot of this through our current labor programs that are already on the books.”
Schiff then asked about food prices. “If we deport a large percentage of our farm workforce, farm labor is going to be scarce,” he said. “Isn’t that inevitably going to push up food prices? And if so, isn’t that in sharp contrast with what the president said he wanted to do to bring down egg prices and food prices?”
“First of all, we’re speaking in hypotheticals,” Rollins said. “But, certainly, these are hypotheticals that we do need to be thinking through. It’s a very fair point. The president has made food inflation and the cost of food one of his top priorities. I have worked alongside him and have been part of his team for many years now. I believe in his vision and his commitment to America and to his promises, and in so doing, we will be able to find in our toolkit what we need to do to solve for any hypothetical issues that turn out to be real moving forward over the coming months and years.”
“I hope they’re hypothetical,” Schiff responded.
“I do, too,” Rollins said.
“I fear they’re all too real,” Schiff said.
In a recent confirmation hearing, President Trump’s nominee for agriculture secretary, Sonny Perdue, dismissed concerns about potential food shortages resulting from mass deportations of immigrant workers as “hypothetical.”
Perdue, a former governor of Georgia, faced questions from senators about how the administration’s immigration policies could impact the agriculture industry, which heavily relies on immigrant labor. When asked about the possibility of food shortages if mass deportations were to occur, Perdue responded by saying, “I think those are very hypothetical situations.”
Critics have expressed alarm at Perdue’s nonchalant attitude towards the potential consequences of mass deportations on the food supply. They argue that immigrant workers play a crucial role in planting, harvesting, and processing the nation’s crops, and any disruptions to this workforce could have serious repercussions for the agriculture industry and food security.
As the confirmation process continues, it remains to be seen how Perdue’s stance on immigration and its impact on food issues will be received by lawmakers and the public. Stay tuned for updates on this important issue.
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Allurion Technologies (NYSE: ALUR) has announced plans to start a clinical study combining its Allurion Program with GLP-1 agonists to optimize muscle mass during weight loss treatment. The initiative addresses a significant concern with GLP-1 therapy, which has shown approximately 40% reduction in lean mass as a proportion of total weight lost.
Previous studies of the Allurion Balloon combined with their Virtual Care Suite have demonstrated promising results: In a study of 571 patients, participants gained 5.6% in lean body mass while losing 14% of total body weight over four months. Another study with 167 patients showed a 15.7% weight reduction with no muscle mass loss.
The company aims to prove that combining their balloon technology with GLP-1 therapy could become the gold standard for obesity care by enabling significant weight loss while improving muscle mass and body composition.
Allurion Technologies (NYSE: ALUR) ha annunciato piani per avviare uno studio clinico che combina il suo Programma Allurion con agonisti del GLP-1 per ottimizzare la massa muscolare durante il trattamento per la perdita di peso. Questa iniziativa affronta una preoccupazione significativa con la terapia GLP-1, che ha mostrato una riduzione di circa il 40% della massa magra come proporzione del peso totale perso.
Studi precedenti sul pallone Allurion combinato con la loro Virtual Care Suite hanno dimostrato risultati promettenti: in uno studio di 571 pazienti, i partecipanti hanno guadagnato il 5,6% di massa corporea magra mentre perdevano il 14% del peso corporeo totale in quattro mesi. Un altro studio con 167 pazienti ha mostrato una riduzione del peso del 15,7% senza perdita di massa muscolare.
L’azienda mira a dimostrare che la combinazione della loro tecnologia del pallone con la terapia GLP-1 potrebbe diventare lo standard d’oro per la cura dell’obesità, consentendo una significativa perdita di peso mentre si migliora la massa muscolare e la composizione corporea.
Allurion Technologies (NYSE: ALUR) ha anunciado planes para iniciar un estudio clínico que combina su Programa Allurion con agonistas de GLP-1 para optimizar la masa muscular durante el tratamiento para la pérdida de peso. Esta iniciativa aborda una preocupación significativa con la terapia GLP-1, que ha mostrado una reducción de aproximadamente el 40% en la masa magra como proporción del peso total perdido.
Estudios previos sobre el Globo Allurion combinado con su Virtual Care Suite han demostrado resultados prometedores: en un estudio de 571 pacientes, los participantes ganaron un 5,6% en masa corporal magra mientras perdían un 14% del peso corporal total en cuatro meses. Otro estudio con 167 pacientes mostró una reducción del peso del 15,7% sin pérdida de masa muscular.
La empresa tiene como objetivo demostrar que la combinación de su tecnología de globo con la terapia de GLP-1 podría convertirse en el estándar de oro para el tratamiento de la obesidad al permitir una pérdida de peso significativa mientras se mejora la masa muscular y la composición corporal.
올루리온 테크놀로지스 (NYSE: ALUR)는 체중 감소 치료 중 근육량을 최적화하기 위해 Allurion 프로그램과 GLP-1 작용제를 결합한 임상 연구를 시작할 계획을 발표했습니다. 이 이니셔티브는 GLP-1 요법과 관련된 심각한 우려를 다루고 있으며, 이는 총 체중 감소의 약 40%가 제지방으로 감소하는 것으로 나타났습니다.
올루리온 풍선과 그들의 가상 케어 스위트를 결합한 이전 연구들은 유망한 결과를 보여주었습니다: 571명의 환자를 대상으로 한 연구에서 참가자들은 4개월 동안 총 체중의 14%를 잃는 동안 5.6%의 제지방량을 증가시켰습니다. 167명의 환자를 대상으로 한 또 다른 연구에서는 근육량 손실 없이 15.7%의 체중 감소가 나타났습니다.
회사는 풍선 기술과 GLP-1 요법의 조합이 체중 감소를 유도하면서 근육량과 신체 구성 개선을 가능하게 하여 비만 치료의 금본위제가 될 수 있음을 입증하는 것을 목표로 하고 있습니다.
Allurion Technologies (NYSE: ALUR) a annoncé des plans pour commencer une étude clinique combinant son Programme Allurion avec des agonistes du GLP-1 afin d’optimiser la masse musculaire durant le traitement de la perte de poids. Cette initiative répond à une préoccupation significative liée à la thérapie GLP-1, qui a montré une réduction d’environ 40% de la masse maigre par rapport au poids total perdu.
Des études antérieures sur le ballon Allurion combiné avec leur Virtual Care Suite ont démontré des résultats prometteurs : dans une étude de 571 patients, les participants ont gagné 5,6% en masse corporelle maigre tout en perdant 14% de leur poids corporel total en quatre mois. Une autre étude avec 167 patients a montré une réduction de poids de 15,7% sans perte de masse musculaire.
L’entreprise vise à prouver que la combinaison de sa technologie de ballon avec la thérapie GLP-1 pourrait devenir la norme en matière de soins contre l’obésité, en permettant une perte de poids significative tout en améliorant la masse musculaire et la composition corporelle.
Allurion Technologies (NYSE: ALUR) hat Pläne angekündigt, eine klinische Studie zu starten, die sein Allurion-Programm mit GLP-1-Agonisten kombiniert, um die Muskelmasse während der Gewichtsabnahme zu optimieren. Diese Initiative spricht ein erhebliches Anliegen in Bezug auf die GLP-1-Therapie an, die eine Reduzierung von etwa 40% der fettfreien Masse als Anteil des insgesamt verlorenen Gewichts gezeigt hat.
Frühere Studien zum Allurion-Ballon in Kombination mit ihrem Virtual Care Suite haben vielversprechende Ergebnisse gezeigt: In einer Studie mit 571 Patienten gewannen die Teilnehmer 5,6% an fettfreier Körpermasse, während sie in vier Monaten 14% ihres Gesamtkörpergewichts verloren. Eine weitere Studie mit 167 Patienten zeigte eine Gewichtsreduktion von 15,7%, ohne dass es zu einem Verlust der Muskelmasse kam.
Das Unternehmen zielt darauf ab, nachzuweisen, dass die Kombination seiner Ballontechnologie mit der GLP-1-Therapie zum Goldstandard in der Adipositasbehandlung werden kann, indem sie eine signifikante Gewichtsabnahme bei gleichzeitiger Verbesserung der Muskelmasse und der Körperzusammensetzung ermöglicht.
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This strategic initiative by Allurion represents a potentially game-changing development in the rapidly expanding obesity treatment market. The company is targeting a critical weakness in GLP-1 treatments – the significant loss of lean muscle mass, which affects approximately 40% of total weight lost during therapy.
The preliminary data is particularly compelling: Allurion’s existing studies show patients achieving 14-15.7% total weight loss while either maintaining or increasing muscle mass – a stark contrast to the muscle wasting observed with GLP-1 treatments alone. In one significant study of 571 patients, subjects achieved a 5.6% increase in lean body mass while losing weight, suggesting a superior metabolic outcome.
This positions Allurion to potentially capture a significant share of the complementary treatment market for GLP-1 users, estimated to reach $100 billion by 2030. The market opportunity is substantial, considering that:
The success of this clinical study could significantly enhance Allurion’s market position and drive adoption of their program among the growing population of GLP-1 users. However, investors should note that this announcement represents an intention to initiate studies and actual clinical validation will require time and substantial investment before potential commercialization.
Allurion Technologies, Inc. (“Allurion” or the “Company”) (NYSE: ALUR), a company dedicated to ending obesity, today announced its intention to initiate a clinical study on the combination of the Allurion Program with GLP-1 agonists to improve muscle mass and overall body composition.
Previous studies in patients undergoing GLP-1 therapy have demonstrated reductions in lean mass of approximately
“Reductions in lean mass and muscle wasting are significant unmet needs in the GLP-1 space, and our early data suggests that we may have a powerful tool in achieving more metabolically healthy weight loss,” said Dr. Shantanu Gaur, Founder and CEO of Allurion. “The goal of our study would be to prove that, by combining the Allurion Balloon and Allurion Virtual Care Suite with GLP-1 therapy, patients can lose significant weight while increasing muscle mass and improving overall body composition. We are optimistic that this would be a significant addition to the possibilities of GLP-1 therapies and, if proven, could become the gold standard for obesity care.”
About Allurion
Allurion is dedicated to ending obesity. The Allurion Program is a weight-loss platform that combines the Allurion Gastric Balloon, the world’s first and only swallowable, procedure-lessTM gastric balloon for weight loss, the Allurion Virtual Care Suite, including the Allurion Mobile App for consumers and Allurion Insights for healthcare providers featuring the Iris AI Platform, and the Allurion Connected Scale. The Allurion Virtual Care Suite is also available to providers separately from the Allurion Program to help customize, monitor, and manage weight-loss therapy for patients regardless of their treatment plan. The Allurion Gastric Balloon is an investigational device in
For more information about Allurion and the Allurion Virtual Care Suite, please visit www.allurion.com.
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Previous studies showed patients lost 14% of total body weight while gaining 5.6% lean body mass over four months. A separate study demonstrated 15.7% weight reduction with no muscle mass loss.
While GLP-1 therapy typically results in 40% lean mass reduction as a proportion of total weight lost, Allurion’s program has demonstrated weight loss while maintaining or increasing muscle mass.
The study aims to prove that combining the Allurion Balloon and Virtual Care Suite with GLP-1 therapy can achieve significant weight loss while increasing muscle mass and improving body composition.
GLP-1 therapy typically results in about 40% lean mass reduction, while Allurion’s program has shown the ability to maintain or increase muscle mass during weight loss.
Allurion Launches Breakthrough Study Combining Gastric Balloon with GLP-1 to Preserve Muscle Mass
Allurion, a leader in non-surgical weight loss solutions, has announced the launch of a groundbreaking study that combines their Elipse gastric balloon with GLP-1 receptor agonists to help preserve muscle mass during weight loss. This innovative approach aims to address one of the biggest concerns with traditional weight loss methods – the loss of muscle mass, which can have negative effects on metabolism and overall health.
GLP-1 receptor agonists are a class of medications commonly used to treat type 2 diabetes and have been shown to have positive effects on weight loss and metabolic health. By combining these medications with the Elipse gastric balloon, Allurion hopes to provide a comprehensive solution that not only helps patients lose weight, but also helps them maintain lean muscle mass and metabolic health.
The study will involve a group of participants who will undergo treatment with the Elipse gastric balloon and GLP-1 receptor agonists for a period of six months. Researchers will measure changes in body composition, muscle mass, metabolic markers, and overall health outcomes to evaluate the effectiveness of this novel approach.
Allurion is excited to be at the forefront of this research and hopes that the results of this study will provide valuable insights into the potential benefits of combining gastric balloons with GLP-1 receptor agonists for weight loss and muscle preservation. Stay tuned for updates on this exciting study and the potential impact it could have on the field of weight loss and metabolic health.
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