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As Donald Trump's influence wanes and his public demeanor becomes more erratic, he has intensified vitriolic attacks aimed at women in media and ethnic communities, 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. Similarly, his administration's offensive against immigrants are poorly executed and driven by misinformation. The evidence makes it obvious that the objective is not targeting those who have committed crimes. The assault is directed at 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 toddlers: a wide array of the country's inhabitants are being threatened.

"Immigration enforcement raids are cruel, unjust and do nothing for community security," states a prominent New York City official. Scenes featuring 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, Venezuelans this year, and now Somalis—lean heavily on defamatory falsehoods and insults. This is because: the truthful data about these groups of people cannot support the animosity.

The Imaginary Nation of White People and Historical Reality

The strategy of frightening and vilifying purports to aim at recreating a uniformly white United States which is a fiction. Although America had a larger white population in the mid-20th century, it never constituted a purely white nation. At the nation's founding, the thirteen founding colonies included a significant percentage of Black and Indigenous peoples—certain states in the South were over one-third Black.

Following American expansion, annexing Texas in 1844 and seizing Mexico's northern territories 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 Puritan passengers landed in Massachusetts in 1620.

Demographic Realities Versus Forced Dreams

The persecution of vast numbers of people of color and even mass deportations will not manufacture the all-white nation of extremist imagination. 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 its original inhabitants.

The entirety of this animus and persecution looks like the fear of racists attempting to believe they can stop the coming changes of a country no longer majority-white through sheer brutality.

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 phenomenon less impactful than in some other nations due to a hard-working population of immigrant laborers which keeps the economy functioning. However, instead of offering the social support that might make raising children easier, the approach is based on punishment and force.

An noted writer observes that the policies on childbirth of certain political figures—along with insults toward childless women—amount to pronatalism. This philosophy "typically merges worries about declining birth rates with opposition to immigration and anti-feminist viewpoints."

In a similar vein, reporting indicates that "attempts to raise the birth rate cannot make up for wider administrative priorities aimed at slashing government assistance initiatives like healthcare for the poor and insurance for kids. This focus on families isn't merely about encouraging procreation. Instead, it is being weaponized to advance a conservative agenda that threatens women's health, reproductive rights, and labor force involvement."

Incoherent Policies and Widespread Resistance

Together, the anti-immigrant and pronatalist policies represent an attempt to forcibly alter the country's population future. Ultimately, 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 positions devolve into meaningless idiocy.

Much of the justification put forward by the administration does not match up with tangible facts and real-world results. For example, naval operations in the southern Caribbean often target small vessels not confirmed to be carrying narcotics and incapable of making it to the United States. Similarly, Venezuela's role in fentanyl trafficking is negligible, and its role in cocaine trafficking is much smaller than that of neighboring countries on the continent.

The government's position extends to environmental policy, with a rejection of "climate change ideology" and "Net Zero goals." An emotional commitment to coal and oil, especially coal mining, resulting in measures that compel localities to invest in obsolete and toxic power sources while sabotaging cheaper, cleaner renewables. Concurrently, public health leadership have promoted anti-scientific dietary schemes while eroding general public health safeguards.

The core premise of the attacks on immigrants is that non-white individuals born abroad are dangerous intruders. Yet, from coast to coast—in cities like L.A. and Charlotte, from Chicago to Portland—the government's own forces, the ICE and Border Patrol officers, whom local communities view as the unwelcome, violent invaders.

There is no clearer sign of the widespread rejection of these tactics than the thousands of people mobilizing, demonstrating, risking safety and arrest to protect their communities. City after city has risen up in defense of its residents. All the insults or intimidation can alter this fundamental truth.