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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 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 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 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, university attendees, people in their own homes, and very young children: a wide array of the country's population is under siege.

"Immigration enforcement raids are brutal, inhumane and achieve nothing for community security," states a leading political figure from New York. The spectacle of masked agents shattering windows and separating parents from children, terrorizing entire communities and hindering the function of institutions, undermines safety entirely.

These waves of calculated hatred—directed at people from Haiti in the 2024 campaign, Venezuelans this year, and now Somalis—rely extensively on libelous lies and slurs. This is because: the truthful data about these communities do not justify the animosity.

The Imaginary Nation of White People Versus Actual History

This campaign of terror and demonization purports to aim at rebuilding a uniformly white United States that is a fantasy. While the US was demographically whiter 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—certain states in the South were over one-third Black.

When the United States expanded, taking Texas in the 1840s and seizing Mexico's northern territories in 1848, it absorbed a vast community of Hispanic settlers long established in what is now the Southwestern U.S. and California. Historical records show the first African Muslim in territory that became the U.S. arrived with a Spanish expedition nearly a century prior to the Mayflower's English Puritans landed in Massachusetts in 1620.

Demographic Realities Against Coercive Fantasies

The persecution of huge populations of brown-skinned individuals and attempts at large-scale expulsion cannot fabricate the ethnically pure country of far-right dreams. Los Angeles, for instance, is nearly half Latino, and despite enforcement outrages, detentions and removals, it remains so. Its name itself is Spanish, an enduring reminder of its original inhabitants.

The entirety of this animus and oppression resembles the panic of racists who pretend they can stop the coming changes of a country that is ceasing to be predominantly white by using pure cruelty.

It is coupled with an attack on abortion access that is, sometimes, openly intended to encourage white women to bear more babies. The rationale cites a below-replacement birthrate in the US, a trend less impactful than in other countries due to a young, industrious immigrant workforce that sustains the economy. Yet, rather than providing 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 of certain political figures—coupled with derogatory comments toward childless women—amount to pronatalism. This ideology "typically merges worries about declining birth rates with opposition to immigration and anti-women's rights viewpoints."

In a similar vein, reporting indicates that "attempts to raise the fertility rate cannot make up for wider administrative priorities aimed at slashing government assistance initiatives like healthcare for the poor and insurance for kids. The so-called 'pro-family' focus is not just for promoting having children. Instead, it is utilized as a tool to advance a conservative agenda that threatens women's health, bodily autonomy, and economic participation."

Contradictory Strategies and Widespread Resistance

The combination of anti-immigration and pronatalist policies represent an attempt to artificially redirect the nation's demographic trajectory. Ultimately, they represent senseless intimidation by individuals filled with hatred who unintentionally demonstrate that their claims to superiority must be based on skin color and sex; without these constructs, their arguments collapse into incoherent nonsense.

A lot of the reasoning offered by the Trump team does not match up with tangible facts and actual outcomes. As an instance, naval operations 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 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 climate issues, with a rejection of "the science of climate change" and "carbon neutrality targets." 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 undermining affordable, clean alternatives. Concurrently, health officials have promoted unscientific nutritional plans while weakening general public health safeguards.

The foundational assumption of the attacks on immigrants is that non-white individuals not born in the US are threatening outsiders. Yet, from coast to coast—in cities like L.A. and Charlotte, Chicago to Portland—it is the administration's own agents, immigration enforcement personnel, whom many residents perceive as the dangerous and hostile interlopers.

No symbol is more powerful of the broad repudiation of this approach than the countless individuals mobilizing, demonstrating, risking safety and arrest to defend their neighbors. City after city has stood up in protection of its people. All the insults or intimidation can alter this fundamental truth.