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As the political power of Donald Trump diminishes and his public demeanor becomes more erratic, there has been an escalation in vitriolic attacks aimed at women in media and ethnic communities, with Somali Americans being the latest target. These disparaging remarks gain traction stems from the animosity behind them and his position, not any basis in truth. Similarly, 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 assault is directed at people of color.

From Native Americans with official tribal documentation to naturalized US citizens, individuals performing critical jobs in building sites and hospitals to military veterans, university attendees, residents asleep in their beds, and very young children: a broad cross-section of the country's inhabitants are being threatened.

"Immigration enforcement raids are cruel, unjust and achieve nothing for public safety," states a prominent New York City official. Scenes featuring officers concealing their faces shattering windows and separating parents from children, instilling fear and disrupting schools and businesses, undermines safety entirely.

These waves of orchestrated bigotry—focusing on Haitians during the election, Venezuelans this year, and most recently Somali Americans—rely extensively on defamatory falsehoods and insults. This is because: the actual facts about these communities cannot support the animosity.

The Imaginary Nation of White People and Historical Reality

This campaign of terror and demonization claims to seek at rebuilding a homogeneously white America which is a fiction. 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 thirteen founding colonies contained a substantial percentage of Black and Indigenous peoples—some southern states were over one-third Black.

When the United States expanded, taking Texas in the 1840s and acquiring northern Mexico in 1848, it absorbed a vast community of Hispanic settlers long established in what is now the Southwestern U.S. and California. It is documented that the first African Muslim in this land came as part of a Spanish expedition nearly a century before the Mayflower Puritan passengers landed in Massachusetts in 1620.

Demographic Realities Against Coercive Fantasies

The persecution of vast numbers of brown-skinned individuals 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 regardless of aggressive enforcement, detentions and removals, it remains so. Its name itself is Spanish, an ongoing testament of its original inhabitants.

The entirety of this animus and oppression resembles the panic of racists attempting to believe they can halt the demographic future of a country that is ceasing to be majority-white through sheer brutality.

This is paired with an attack on abortion access that is, sometimes, explicitly designed to encourage white women to have more children. The rationale cites a below-replacement birthrate in the US, a phenomenon less severe than in some other nations due to a hard-working population of immigrant laborers that sustains the economy. However, instead of offering the societal assistance that might make raising children easier, the strategy has been punitive and coercive.

An noted writer observes that the policies on childbirth of certain political figures—coupled with derogatory comments aimed at women without children—amount to pronatalism. This philosophy "typically merges concerns over falling fertility with opposition to immigration and anti-women's rights ideas."

Similarly, reporting indicates that "efforts to bolster the fertility rate do not compensate for broader policies designed to cut government assistance initiatives like healthcare for the poor and insurance for kids. This focus on families is not just for promoting having children. Rather, it is utilized as a tool to push a right-wing political program that threatens women's health, bodily autonomy, and labor force involvement."

Incoherent Policies and Public Rejection

The combination of anti-immigrant and pronatalist policies represent an attempt to forcibly alter the country's population future. In the end, both amount to 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 meaningless idiocy.

Much of the justification put forward by the administration does not match up with tangible facts and real-world results. For example, maritime attacks in the Caribbean Sea frequently focus on 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 negligible, and its involvement with cocaine is far less than that of other South American nations.

The administration's stance extends to climate issues, with a rejection of "the science of climate change" and "Net Zero goals." An emotional attachment to fossil fuels, especially coal mining, leading to policies that compel localities to spend money on obsolete and toxic power sources while sabotaging cheaper, cleaner renewables. Concurrently, public health leadership have advanced unscientific nutritional plans while weakening broader health protections.

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, from Chicago to Portland—the government's own forces, immigration enforcement personnel, whom many residents view as the unwelcome, violent invaders.

There is no clearer sign of the widespread rejection of this approach than the countless individuals organizing, protesting, facing danger and detention to protect their communities. Municipality after municipality has risen up in protection of its people. All the insults or intimidation can alter this fundamental truth.