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As Donald Trump's influence wanes and his public demeanor becomes more erratic, he has intensified vitriolic attacks aimed at female journalists and ethnic communities, with Somali Americans as a recent focal point. The impact of these insults stems from their malice and his platform, not their factual accuracy. Similarly, the government's actions against immigrants are poorly executed and driven by misinformation. It is abundantly clear that the objective is not targeting individuals with criminal histories. The true target is anyone with brown skin.

From Native Americans carrying tribal IDs to American citizens by choice, individuals performing critical jobs in construction and healthcare to military veterans, college students, residents asleep in their beds, and toddlers: a broad cross-section of the country's population is under siege.

"Immigration enforcement raids are brutal, inhumane and do nothing for community security," states a leading political figure from New York. Scenes featuring masked agents breaking car glass and separating parents from children, terrorizing entire communities and hindering the function of institutions, achieves the opposite effect.

The cycles of orchestrated bigotry—focusing on people from Haiti in the 2024 campaign, Venezuelans this year, and most recently Somali Americans—rely extensively on libelous lies and slurs. The reason is simple: the truthful data about these communities cannot support such hostility.

The Mythical Nation of White People and Historical Reality

This campaign of terror and demonization claims to seek at recreating a uniformly white United States that is a fantasy. While the US was demographically whiter in the youth of today's white supremacists, it was never exclusively a "white country". In 1776, the thirteen founding colonies contained a substantial percentage of African and Native American individuals—some southern states were over one-third Black.

Following American expansion, taking Texas in the 1840s and acquiring northern Mexico in 1848, it absorbed a vast community of Hispanic settlers long established in the modern Southwest and California. Historical records show the initial Muslim of African descent in this land arrived with a Spanish exploration party almost one hundred years prior to the Mayflower's English Puritans landed in Massachusetts in 1620.

Population Truths Versus Coercive Fantasies

The systematic targeting of huge populations of people of color and attempts at large-scale expulsion will not manufacture the ethnically pure country of extremist imagination. A city like Los Angeles, for instance, is close to 50% Hispanic, and regardless of aggressive enforcement, arrests, and deportations, it remains so. The city's very name is Spanish, an enduring reminder of who was there first.

The entirety of this animus and persecution looks like the fear of racists attempting to believe they can halt the demographic future of a country no longer predominantly white by using pure cruelty.

This is paired with an assault on reproductive rights that is, sometimes, explicitly designed to prompt Caucasian women to have more children. The argument points to a below-replacement birthrate in the US, a phenomenon less severe than in some other nations 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 approach is punitive and coercive.

An noted writer notes that the policies on childbirth of certain political figures—coupled with derogatory comments aimed at women without children—amount to pronatalism. This ideology "typically merges concerns over falling fertility with opposition to immigration and anti-women's rights ideas."

Similarly, analyses show that "efforts to bolster the fertility rate cannot make up for broader policies designed to cut government assistance initiatives like Medicaid and insurance for kids. This focus on families is not just for 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 economic participation."

Contradictory Strategies and Public Rejection

Together, the anti-immigration and pro-birth policies represent an attempt to forcibly alter the nation's demographic trajectory. Ultimately, they represent senseless intimidation by individuals filled with hatred who unintentionally demonstrate that their assertions of being better must be based on skin color and sex; absent these categories, their positions devolve into meaningless idiocy.

Much of the justification offered by the Trump team fails to align with observable realities and real-world results. For example, naval operations in the Caribbean Sea often target small vessels not confirmed to be carrying narcotics and not able of making it to the United States. Likewise, Venezuela's involvement in the fentanyl trade is negligible, and its involvement with cocaine is far less than that of other South American nations.

The administration's stance extends to climate issues, with a dismissal of "climate change ideology" and "carbon neutrality targets." There is a sentimental commitment to fossil fuels, particularly coal, resulting in measures that compel localities to spend money on outdated and polluting energy sources while sabotaging affordable, clean alternatives. At the same time, public health leadership have promoted unscientific nutritional plans while eroding broader health protections.

The foundational assumption of the anti-immigrant offensive is that people of color born abroad are threatening outsiders. Yet, from coast to coast—in cities like L.A. and Charlotte, from Chicago to Portland—it is the administration's own agents, the ICE and Border Patrol officers, whom many residents perceive as the unwelcome, violent invaders.

There is no clearer sign of the widespread rejection of this approach than the countless individuals mobilizing, demonstrating, facing danger and detention to defend their neighbors. Municipality after municipality has stood up in defense of its residents. No amount of derogatory language or intimidation can alter this fundamental truth.