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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. These disparaging remarks gain traction stems from the animosity behind them and his position, not their factual accuracy. 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 individuals with criminal histories. The assault is directed at people of color.

From Native Americans carrying tribal IDs to naturalized US citizens, individuals performing critical jobs in construction and healthcare to military veterans, university attendees, residents asleep in their beds, and toddlers: a wide array of the country's population is under siege.

"Immigration enforcement raids are brutal, inhumane and do nothing for public safety," asserts a prominent New York City official. The spectacle of officers concealing their faces shattering windows and separating parents from children, instilling fear and hindering the function of institutions, undermines safety entirely.

These waves of orchestrated bigotry—focusing on people from Haiti in the 2024 campaign, Venezuelans this year, and now Somalis—lean heavily on libelous lies and slurs. This is because: the actual facts about these communities cannot support the animosity.

The Mythical White Nation Versus Actual History

This campaign of terror and demonization claims to seek at rebuilding a homogeneously white America that is a fantasy. Although America had a larger white population in the youth of today's white supremacists, it was never exclusively a "white country". In 1776, the thirteen founding colonies included a significant percentage of African and Native American individuals—some southern states 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 already living across the modern Southwest and California. It is documented that the first African Muslim in this land 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 Versus Forced Dreams

The persecution of huge populations of people of color and even mass deportations will not manufacture the all-white nation of extremist imagination. A city like Los Angeles, for instance, is close to 50% Hispanic, and despite enforcement outrages, arrests, and deportations, it remains so. The city's very name is Spanish, an ongoing testament of its original inhabitants.

The entirety of this animus and oppression looks like the fear of racists attempting to believe they can halt the demographic future of a country that is ceasing to be predominantly white by using pure cruelty.

This is paired with an attack on abortion access that is, at times, openly intended to prompt Caucasian women to bear more babies. The rationale cites a fertility rate below replacement level 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 societal assistance that might make raising children easier, the approach is based on punishment and force.

A prominent journalist observes that the policies on childbirth espoused by figures like JD Vance—along with insults toward childless women—constitute a form of pronatalism. This philosophy "typically merges concerns over falling fertility with opposition to immigration and anti-women's rights ideas."

In a similar vein, analyses show that "attempts to raise the fertility rate cannot make up for wider administrative priorities aimed at slashing government assistance initiatives like Medicaid and children's health insurance. The so-called 'pro-family' focus is not just for encouraging procreation. Rather, it is being weaponized to advance a conservative agenda that threatens women's health, reproductive rights, and labor force involvement."

Incoherent Policies and Public Rejection

The combination of anti-immigration and pronatalist policies represent an attempt to artificially redirect the nation's demographic trajectory. Ultimately, both amount to foolish bullying by proponents of hate 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 observable realities and actual outcomes. As an instance, maritime attacks in the Caribbean Sea frequently focus on small vessels not confirmed to be transporting drugs 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 environmental policy, with a rejection of "the science of climate change" and "Net Zero goals." An emotional commitment to fossil fuels, especially coal mining, leading to policies that compel localities to invest in obsolete and toxic energy sources while sabotaging cheaper, cleaner renewables. Concurrently, health officials have advanced unscientific nutritional plans while weakening 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—from Los Angeles to Charlotte, from Chicago to Portland—the government's own forces, the ICE and Border Patrol officers, whom local communities view as the dangerous and hostile interlopers.

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 change that reality.