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As the political power of Donald Trump diminishes and his public demeanor becomes more erratic, there has been an escalation in hostile rhetoric aimed at women in media and racial minorities, with Somali Americans as a recent focal point. These disparaging remarks gain traction stems from their malice and his platform, not any basis in truth. In a parallel manner, his administration's offensive against immigrants are poorly executed and driven by misinformation. It is abundantly clear that the goal extends beyond targeting those who have committed crimes. The assault is directed at people of color.

From Native Americans carrying tribal IDs to American citizens by choice, from essential workers in construction and healthcare to military veterans, college students, residents asleep in their beds, and very young children: a broad cross-section of the country's inhabitants are being threatened.

"Immigration enforcement raids are cruel, unjust and achieve nothing for community security," states a leading political figure from New York. The spectacle of officers concealing their faces breaking car glass and separating parents from children, instilling fear and hindering the function of institutions, undermines safety entirely.

The cycles of orchestrated bigotry—directed at people from Haiti in the 2024 campaign, Venezuelan migrants this spring, and now Somalis—rely extensively on defamatory falsehoods and insults. The reason is simple: the actual facts about these communities cannot support the animosity.

The Mythical Nation of White People and Historical Reality

This campaign of terror and demonization claims to seek at rebuilding a homogeneously white America that is a fantasy. While the US was demographically whiter in the mid-20th century, it never constituted a purely white nation. In 1776, the original thirteen colonies included a significant percentage of Black and Indigenous peoples—some southern states had Black populations exceeding a third.

Following American expansion, annexing Texas in 1844 and seizing Mexico's northern territories in 1848, it incorporated a large community of Hispanic settlers long established in the modern Southwest and California. It is documented that the initial Muslim of African descent in this land came as part of a Spanish expedition almost one hundred years prior to the Mayflower's English Puritans landed in Massachusetts in 1620.

Population Truths Against Forced Dreams

The persecution of vast numbers of brown-skinned individuals and attempts at large-scale expulsion cannot fabricate the all-white nation of far-right dreams. A city like Los Angeles, for instance, is close to 50% Hispanic, and regardless of aggressive enforcement, arrests, and deportations, its character persists. Its name itself is Spanish, an ongoing testament of who was there first.

The entirety of this animus and oppression looks like the fear of racists who pretend they can halt the demographic future of a country that is ceasing to be predominantly white through sheer brutality.

It is coupled with an attack on abortion access that is, at times, explicitly designed to prompt Caucasian women to bear more babies. The rationale cites a below-replacement birthrate in the US, a phenomenon less severe than in other countries because of a young, industrious immigrant workforce which keeps the economy functioning. Yet, instead of offering the societal assistance that might make raising children easier, the strategy has been punitive and coercive.

An noted writer notes that the reproductive politics of certain political figures—coupled with derogatory comments toward childless women—amount to pronatalism. This ideology "typically merges worries about declining birth rates with opposition to immigration and anti-feminist ideas."

In a similar vein, analyses show that "attempts to raise the birth rate do not compensate for broader policies aimed at slashing government assistance initiatives like Medicaid and children's health insurance. The so-called 'pro-family' focus isn't merely about promoting having children. Instead, it is utilized as a tool to push a right-wing political program that threatens the health of women, bodily autonomy, and labor force involvement."

Incoherent Policies and Public Rejection

Together, the anti-immigration and pronatalist policies constitute an effort to artificially redirect the nation's demographic trajectory. In the end, both amount to senseless intimidation by individuals filled with hatred who unintentionally demonstrate that their claims to superiority must be rooted in race and gender; without these constructs, their arguments collapse into incoherent nonsense.

Much of the justification offered by the Trump team fails to align with tangible facts and real-world results. For example, maritime attacks in the southern Caribbean frequently focus on tiny boats not confirmed to be transporting drugs and not able of reaching US shores. Likewise, Venezuela's role in fentanyl trafficking is minimal, and its role in cocaine trafficking is much smaller than that of other South American nations.

The government's position extends to environmental policy, with a dismissal of "climate change ideology" and "Net Zero goals." There is a sentimental attachment to fossil fuels, especially coal mining, resulting in measures that force communities to spend money on obsolete and toxic energy sources while sabotaging affordable, clean alternatives. At the same time, health officials have advanced anti-scientific dietary schemes while weakening broader health protections.

The core premise of the anti-immigrant offensive is that people of color born abroad are threatening outsiders. However, across the nation—from Los Angeles to Charlotte, Chicago to Portland—the government's own forces, immigration enforcement personnel, whom many residents view as the unwelcome, violent invaders.

No symbol is more powerful of the broad repudiation of this approach than the countless individuals mobilizing, demonstrating, facing danger and detention to defend their neighbors. City after city has stood up in defense of its residents. No amount of derogatory language and threats can alter this fundamental truth.