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As Donald Trump's influence wanes and his behavior grows increasingly volatile, he has intensified vitriolic attacks aimed at female journalists and racial minorities, with Somali Americans being the latest target. The impact of these insults stems from their malice and his platform, not any basis in truth. Similarly, the government's actions against immigrants are poorly executed and driven by misinformation. It is abundantly clear that the objective is not targeting those who have committed crimes. The true target is anyone with brown skin.

This includes Indigenous peoples carrying tribal IDs to American citizens by choice, from essential workers in building sites and hospitals to those who served, university attendees, people in their own homes, and very young children: a broad cross-section of the country's inhabitants are being threatened.

"Immigration enforcement raids are cruel, unjust and do nothing for public safety," states a leading political figure from New York. Scenes featuring masked agents shattering windows and separating parents from children, terrorizing entire communities and disrupting schools and businesses, achieves the opposite effect.

These waves of orchestrated bigotry—directed at Haitians during the election, Venezuelans this year, and most recently Somali Americans—lean heavily on defamatory falsehoods and slurs. The reason is simple: the actual facts about these communities do not justify the animosity.

The Mythical Nation of White People Versus Actual History

The strategy of frightening and vilifying claims to seek at recreating a uniformly white United States which is a fiction. 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—certain states in the South had Black populations exceeding a third.

When the United States expanded, annexing Texas in 1844 and seizing Mexico's northern territories in 1848, it incorporated a large community of Hispanic settlers already living across what is now the Southwestern U.S. and California. It is documented that the initial Muslim of African descent in territory that became the U.S. came as part of a Spanish exploration party nearly a century prior to the Mayflower's English Puritans landed in Massachusetts in 1620.

Demographic Realities Against Forced Dreams

The persecution of vast numbers of brown-skinned individuals and attempts at large-scale expulsion will not manufacture the ethnically pure country of extremist imagination. Los Angeles, for instance, is close to 50% Hispanic, and regardless of aggressive enforcement, detentions and removals, its character persists. Its name itself is Spanish, an enduring reminder of its original inhabitants.

All this hatred and persecution looks like the fear of racists who pretend they can stop the coming changes of a country that is ceasing to be predominantly white by using pure cruelty.

This is paired with an assault on reproductive rights that is, at times, explicitly designed to encourage white women to bear more babies. The argument points to a below-replacement birthrate in the US, a trend less impactful than in some other nations because of a hard-working population of immigrant laborers that sustains the economy. Yet, rather than providing the social support that might make raising children easier, the strategy has been punitive and coercive.

An noted writer observes that the policies on childbirth espoused by figures like JD Vance—along with insults toward childless women—amount to pronatalism. This philosophy "typically merges worries about declining birth rates with anti-immigration and anti-women's rights ideas."

In a similar vein, analyses show that "efforts to bolster the fertility rate do not compensate for wider administrative priorities designed to cut federal support programs like healthcare for the poor and children's health insurance. This focus on families is not just for promoting having children. Instead, it is being weaponized to push a right-wing political program that threatens women's health, reproductive rights, and economic participation."

Contradictory Strategies and Widespread Resistance

Together, the anti-immigration and pro-birth policies constitute an effort to artificially redirect the country's population future. Ultimately, both amount to foolish bullying by individuals filled with hatred who inadvertently reveal that their assertions of being better must be based on skin color and sex; absent these categories, their arguments collapse into incoherent nonsense.

A lot of the reasoning put forward by the administration fails to align with tangible facts and real-world results. As an instance, naval operations in the Caribbean Sea frequently focus on small vessels which are not proven to be carrying narcotics and not able of making it to the United States. Likewise, Venezuela's role in fentanyl trafficking is negligible, and its involvement with cocaine is far less than that of other South American nations.

The government's position extends to environmental policy, with a dismissal of "the science of climate change" and "carbon neutrality targets." An emotional attachment to fossil fuels, especially coal mining, leading to policies that force communities to spend money on obsolete and toxic power sources while undermining cheaper, cleaner renewables. Concurrently, health officials have promoted anti-scientific dietary schemes while eroding broader health protections.

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

There is no clearer sign of the broad repudiation of these tactics than the thousands of people organizing, protesting, risking safety and arrest to defend their neighbors. Municipality after municipality has risen up in defense of its residents. All the insults and threats can alter this fundamental truth.