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Immigrant rights groups and librarians react to Trump's win. The President-elect names philosophical allies and deregulators to White House positions and Democrats wonder how they can fight Trump policies, given the GOP's congressional majority.

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Welcome to 2024 Talks, where we're following our democracy in historic times.

Donald Trump has demonized us and our communities at every turn of this election and has promised to tear apart the families who have contributed so much more to our great state than he ever has.

We stopped him before.

We will stop him again.

Marlene Galas with the New York Immigration Coalition is one of many vowing to fight Donald Trump's mass deportation plans, though the president elects as deporting as many as 10 million people would solve the nation's immigration problems, the personal and economic repercussions would be profound.

Analysts project it would create a nationwide labor shortage and cost the economy up to $1.7 trillion in GDP.

Trump has named hardliner Thomas Homan as second-term border czar.

The former acting ICE director championed the family separation policy during Trump's first term and says ICE agents will restart large-scale immigration arrests at job sites.

Librarians are concerned that Project 2025, the roadmap for a second Trump term, envisions ending all federal funding for state and public libraries.

It would also make librarians subject to criminal charges for having books deemed pornographic on library shelves.

Peter Bromberg with Every Library says that's code for certain types of books.

We see that oftentimes pornography becomes a stand-in for just LGBTQ materials.

So anything that has an LGBTQ character, even if it's in a picture book, is framed as pornographic.

Trump has named former New York Congressman Lee Zeldin as the next head of the Environmental Protection Agency.

Zeldin has supported drastic deregulation and could act on the president-elect's stated position that climate change is a hoax.

Eric Draper is the former director of the Florida Park Service.

They are going to move quickly in the direction of more fossil fuel productions, more oil and gas drilling on public lands, and possibly on the Alpera Coast.

Republicans have now secured enough seats to run both the House and the Senate.

Washington Democratic Representative Pramila Jayapal says with a conservative majority on the Supreme Court and the GOP controlling both Congress and the White House, Democratic influence will be limited.

She says the battles will likely start with appointments.

So I think we're going to continue to see a number of people that have disturbing histories being appointed to many of these positions.

We're going to have to figure out how we fight that best.

Another immediate job for Congress will be renewing a farm bill already a year overdue.

In his first term, Trump took a deregulatory stance on factory farming and agriculture.

Sentient science reporter Seth Milstein says not only did he roll back animal welfare and environmental protections, but he also eased the school nutrition rules.

Trump as president lowered the standards for school lunches.

He decreased the minimum amount of vegetables required for a meal.

I believe he also increased the maximum amount of sodium allowed in school lunches.

Other Trump appointees include New York Representative Elise Stefanik as the new United Nations ambassador and Florida Representative Mike Walz as national security advisor.

I'm Edwin J. Viera for Pacifica Network and Public News Service.

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