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As the political power of Donald Trump diminishes and his public demeanor becomes more erratic, he has intensified hostile rhetoric aimed at female journalists and racial minorities, with Somali Americans being the latest target. These disparaging remarks gain traction stems from their malice and his platform, not their factual accuracy. In a parallel manner, his administration's offensive against immigrants are haphazard and founded on falsehoods. The evidence makes it obvious that the goal extends beyond targeting individuals with criminal histories. The true target is anyone with brown skin.

This includes Indigenous peoples carrying tribal IDs to naturalized US citizens, individuals performing critical jobs 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," asserts a prominent New York City official. The spectacle of masked agents shattering windows and dragging parents away from infants, terrorizing entire communities and disrupting schools and businesses, achieves the opposite effect.

The cycles of calculated hatred—focusing on people from Haiti in the 2024 campaign, Venezuelans this year, and most recently Somali Americans—lean heavily on libelous lies and slurs. The reason is simple: the actual facts about these groups of people cannot support the animosity.

The Mythical Nation of White People and Historical Reality

The strategy of frightening and vilifying purports to aim at recreating a homogeneously white America that is a fantasy. Although America had a larger white population in the youth of today's white supremacists, it never constituted a purely white nation. At the nation's founding, the original thirteen colonies contained a substantial percentage of African and Native American individuals—some southern states had Black populations exceeding a third.

Following American expansion, taking Texas in the 1840s and seizing Mexico's northern territories in 1848, it incorporated a large Spanish-speaking population long established in the modern Southwest and California. It is documented that the first African Muslim in territory that became the U.S. arrived with a Spanish exploration party nearly a century before the Mayflower Puritan passengers reached the shores of New England in 1620.

Demographic Realities Against Coercive Fantasies

The persecution of vast numbers of brown-skinned individuals and even mass deportations cannot fabricate the ethnically pure country of extremist imagination. Los Angeles, for instance, is nearly half Latino, and despite enforcement outrages, arrests, and deportations, 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 who pretend they can halt the demographic future of a country no longer predominantly white by using pure cruelty.

It is coupled with an attack on abortion access that is, sometimes, explicitly designed to encourage white women to bear more babies. The rationale cites a fertility rate below replacement level in the US, a trend less severe than in some other nations due to a hard-working population of immigrant laborers which keeps the economy functioning. Yet, instead of offering the social support that might make raising children easier, the strategy has been based on punishment and force.

A prominent journalist observes that the policies on childbirth espoused by figures like JD Vance—along with insults aimed at women without children—amount to pronatalism. This philosophy "usually combines concerns over falling fertility with opposition to immigration and anti-women's rights viewpoints."

Similarly, analyses show that "attempts to raise the birth 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 encouraging procreation. Rather, it is utilized as a tool to advance a conservative agenda that threatens the health of women, reproductive rights, and labor force involvement."

Incoherent Policies and Public Rejection

Together, the anti-immigration and pro-birth policies constitute an effort to forcibly alter the country's population future. Ultimately, they represent foolish bullying 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 put forward by the administration does not match up with observable realities and actual outcomes. For example, maritime attacks in the southern Caribbean often target tiny boats which are not proven to be carrying narcotics and not able of reaching US shores. Likewise, 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 government's position extends to climate issues, with a rejection of "climate change ideology" and "Net Zero goals." An emotional commitment to fossil fuels, particularly coal, leading to policies that force communities to spend money on obsolete and toxic energy sources while undermining affordable, clean alternatives. Concurrently, public health leadership have promoted unscientific nutritional plans while weakening general public health safeguards.

The core premise of the attacks on immigrants is that people of color born abroad are threatening outsiders. However, across the nation—from Los Angeles to Charlotte, Chicago to Portland—it is the administration's own agents, immigration enforcement personnel, whom local communities view as the dangerous and hostile interlopers.

No symbol is more powerful of the widespread rejection of this approach than the thousands of people organizing, protesting, risking safety and arrest to protect their communities. City after city has stood up in defense of its residents. No amount of derogatory language and threats can alter this fundamental truth.