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As Donald Trump's influence wanes and his behavior grows increasingly volatile, there has been an escalation in hostile rhetoric aimed at female journalists and ethnic communities, including Somali immigrants being the latest target. These disparaging remarks gain traction stems from their malice and his platform, not their factual accuracy. Similarly, the government's actions 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 true target is anyone with brown skin.

This includes Indigenous peoples with official tribal documentation to naturalized US citizens, from essential workers in building sites and hospitals to military veterans, university attendees, residents asleep in their beds, and very young children: a wide array of the country's population is under siege.

"ICE operations are brutal, inhumane and do nothing for community security," asserts a leading political figure from New York. Scenes featuring officers concealing their faces shattering windows and dragging parents away from infants, instilling fear and disrupting schools and businesses, achieves the opposite effect.

These waves of calculated hatred—directed at Haitians during the election, Venezuelans this year, and most recently Somali Americans—rely extensively on defamatory falsehoods and slurs. The reason is simple: 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 homogeneously white America 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 thirteen founding colonies contained a substantial percentage of African and Native American individuals—some southern states had Black populations exceeding a third.

When the United States expanded, taking Texas in the 1840s and seizing Mexico's northern territories in 1848, it incorporated a large community of Hispanic settlers already living across the modern Southwest and California. Historical records show the initial Muslim of African descent in this land came as part of a Spanish expedition nearly a century before the Mayflower English Puritans landed in Massachusetts in 1620.

Demographic Realities Versus Forced Dreams

The systematic targeting of vast numbers of people of color and attempts at large-scale expulsion cannot fabricate the ethnically pure country of extremist imagination. Los Angeles, for instance, is nearly half Latino, and regardless of aggressive enforcement, detentions and removals, it remains so. The city's very name is Spanish, an enduring reminder of its original inhabitants.

All this hatred and oppression resembles the panic of racists who pretend they can stop the coming changes of a country no longer majority-white by using pure cruelty.

It is coupled with an assault on reproductive rights that is, at times, openly intended to prompt Caucasian women to bear more babies. The argument points to a below-replacement birthrate in the US, a phenomenon less severe than in other countries due to a hard-working population of immigrant laborers that sustains the economy. Yet, instead of offering the societal assistance that could ease the burdens of parenthood, the approach is based on punishment and force.

A prominent journalist notes that the reproductive politics espoused by figures like JD Vance—along with insults toward childless women—amount to pronatalism. This ideology "typically merges concerns over falling fertility with anti-immigration and anti-feminist ideas."

In a similar vein, reporting indicates that "attempts to raise the fertility rate cannot make up for broader policies aimed at slashing federal support programs like Medicaid and insurance for kids. The so-called 'pro-family' focus isn't merely about encouraging procreation. Rather, it is being weaponized to advance a conservative agenda that threatens women's health, bodily autonomy, and economic participation."

Incoherent Policies and Widespread Resistance

Together, the anti-immigrant and pronatalist policies constitute an effort to forcibly alter the nation's demographic trajectory. In the end, they represent senseless intimidation by proponents of hate who inadvertently reveal that their claims to superiority must be based on skin color and sex; absent these categories, their positions devolve into meaningless idiocy.

A lot of the reasoning put forward by the administration does not match up with tangible facts and actual outcomes. As an instance, naval operations in the southern Caribbean frequently focus on tiny boats not confirmed to be carrying narcotics and not able of reaching US shores. Similarly, Venezuela's involvement in fentanyl trafficking is minimal, and its role in cocaine trafficking is far less than that of other South American nations.

The government's position extends to climate issues, with a rejection of "the science of climate change" and "Net Zero goals." There is a sentimental attachment to coal and oil, particularly coal, resulting in measures that force communities to invest in obsolete and toxic energy sources while undermining cheaper, cleaner renewables. Concurrently, public health leadership have advanced anti-scientific dietary schemes while weakening general public health safeguards.

The core premise of the attacks on immigrants is that people of color born abroad are threatening outsiders. Yet, from coast to coast—from Los Angeles to 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 widespread rejection of this approach than the countless individuals mobilizing, demonstrating, facing danger and detention to protect their communities. Municipality after municipality has stood up in defense of its residents. All the insults or intimidation can alter this fundamental truth.