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As the political power of Donald Trump diminishes and his behavior grows increasingly volatile, there has been an escalation in vitriolic attacks aimed at female journalists and racial minorities, including Somali immigrants being the latest target. The impact of these insults stems from the animosity behind them and his position, not any basis in truth. Similarly, the government's actions against immigrants are poorly executed and driven by misinformation. The evidence makes it obvious that the objective is not targeting individuals with criminal histories. The assault is directed at people of color.

This includes Indigenous peoples with official tribal documentation to American citizens by choice, individuals performing critical jobs in building sites and hospitals to military veterans, college students, residents asleep in their beds, and toddlers: a broad cross-section of the country's inhabitants are being threatened.

"ICE operations are brutal, inhumane and do nothing for public safety," states a prominent New York City official. Scenes featuring masked agents breaking car glass and separating parents from children, instilling fear and disrupting schools and businesses, undermines safety entirely.

The cycles of calculated hatred—directed at Haitians during the election, Venezuelans this year, and most recently Somali Americans—lean heavily on defamatory falsehoods and slurs. This is because: the actual facts about these communities do not justify such hostility.

The Mythical White Nation and Historical Reality

This campaign of terror and demonization purports to aim at recreating a uniformly white United States which is a fiction. While the US was demographically whiter in the mid-20th century, it never constituted a purely white nation. In 1776, the thirteen founding colonies contained a substantial percentage of Black and Indigenous peoples—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 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 nearly a century before the Mayflower English Puritans landed in Massachusetts in 1620.

Population Truths Against Forced Dreams

The systematic targeting of huge populations of brown-skinned individuals and attempts at large-scale expulsion will not manufacture the ethnically pure country of far-right dreams. A city like Los Angeles, for instance, is nearly half Latino, and despite enforcement outrages, detentions and removals, it remains so. The city's very name is Spanish, an ongoing testament of who was there first.

All this hatred and oppression resembles the panic of bigots attempting to believe they can stop the coming changes of a country no longer majority-white by using pure cruelty.

This is paired with an attack on abortion access that is, sometimes, explicitly designed to prompt Caucasian women to bear more babies. The argument points to a below-replacement birthrate in the US, a trend less severe than in some other nations because of a hard-working population of immigrant laborers that sustains the economy. However, instead of offering the societal assistance that could ease the burdens of parenthood, the approach is punitive and coercive.

An noted writer notes that the policies on childbirth of certain political figures—coupled with derogatory comments toward childless women—constitute a form of pronatalism. This ideology "typically merges concerns over falling fertility with opposition to immigration and anti-women's rights ideas."

In a similar vein, reporting indicates that "attempts to raise the birth rate cannot make up for broader policies aimed at slashing federal support programs 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 advance a conservative agenda that threatens the health of women, bodily autonomy, and labor force involvement."

Contradictory Strategies and Widespread Resistance

Together, the anti-immigration and pro-birth policies constitute an effort to artificially redirect the nation's demographic trajectory. Ultimately, they represent foolish bullying by individuals filled with hatred who inadvertently reveal that their claims to superiority must be based on skin color and sex; absent these categories, their positions devolve into incoherent nonsense.

Much of the justification offered by the Trump team fails to align with tangible facts and actual outcomes. As an instance, maritime attacks in the Caribbean Sea frequently focus on tiny boats not confirmed to be transporting drugs and incapable of making it to the United States. Similarly, Venezuela's involvement in the fentanyl trade is minimal, and its role in cocaine trafficking is much smaller than that of neighboring countries on the continent.

The administration's stance extends to climate issues, with a dismissal of "the science of climate change" and "Net Zero goals." An emotional attachment to coal and oil, especially coal mining, resulting in measures that compel localities to invest in outdated and polluting power sources while sabotaging affordable, clean alternatives. At the same time, public health leadership have promoted anti-scientific dietary schemes while eroding broader health protections.

The core premise of the attacks on immigrants is that non-white individuals not born in the US are threatening outsiders. However, across the nation—in cities like L.A. and Charlotte, Chicago to Portland—the government's own forces, the ICE and Border Patrol officers, whom many residents perceive as the dangerous and hostile interlopers.

There is no clearer sign of the broad repudiation of this approach than the countless individuals organizing, protesting, risking safety and arrest to protect their communities. City after city has stood up in protection of its people. No amount of derogatory language or intimidation can alter this fundamental truth.