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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 female journalists and racial minorities, including Somali immigrants being the latest target. The impact of these insults stems from their malice and his platform, not their factual accuracy. In a parallel manner, the government's actions against immigrants are haphazard and founded on falsehoods. It is abundantly clear that the objective is not targeting those who have committed crimes. The true target is anyone with brown skin.

From Native Americans carrying tribal IDs to naturalized US citizens, from essential workers in building sites and hospitals to those who served, university attendees, residents asleep in their beds, and toddlers: a broad cross-section of the country's inhabitants are being threatened.

"ICE operations are brutal, inhumane and do nothing for public safety," asserts a leading political figure from New York. Scenes featuring masked agents breaking car glass and dragging parents away from infants, terrorizing entire communities and disrupting schools and businesses, achieves the opposite effect.

The cycles of orchestrated bigotry—focusing on Haitians during the election, Venezuelan migrants this spring, and most recently Somali Americans—rely extensively on defamatory falsehoods and insults. This is because: the actual facts about these communities do not justify such hostility.

The Mythical 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 was never exclusively a "white country". At the nation's founding, the thirteen founding colonies included a significant percentage of African and Native American individuals—certain states in the South were over one-third Black.

Following American expansion, annexing Texas in 1844 and seizing Mexico's northern territories in 1848, it incorporated a large Spanish-speaking population already living across what is now the Southwestern U.S. and California. It is documented that the initial Muslim of African descent in territory that became the U.S. came as part of a Spanish expedition almost one hundred years prior to the Mayflower's English Puritans landed in Massachusetts in 1620.

Demographic Realities Against Coercive Fantasies

The persecution of vast numbers of brown-skinned individuals and attempts at large-scale expulsion cannot fabricate the all-white nation of extremist imagination. Los Angeles, for instance, is close to 50% Hispanic, and despite enforcement outrages, detentions and removals, it remains so. Its name itself is Spanish, an enduring reminder of who was there first.

The entirety of this animus and oppression looks like the fear of racists attempting to believe 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 prompt Caucasian 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 because of a hard-working population of immigrant laborers which keeps the economy functioning. Yet, rather than providing the social support that might make raising children easier, the strategy has been based on punishment and force.

An noted writer observes that the policies on childbirth espoused by figures like JD Vance—along with insults aimed at women without children—amount to pronatalism. This ideology "usually combines concerns over falling fertility with anti-immigration and anti-women's rights ideas."

In a similar vein, analyses show that "attempts to raise the birth rate cannot make up for broader policies aimed at slashing government assistance initiatives like healthcare for the poor and children's health insurance. The so-called 'pro-family' focus isn't merely about promoting having children. Rather, it is being weaponized to push a right-wing political program that threatens the health of women, reproductive rights, and labor force involvement."

Incoherent Policies and Widespread Resistance

The combination of anti-immigrant and pronatalist policies represent an attempt to artificially redirect the nation's demographic trajectory. Ultimately, both amount to senseless intimidation by individuals filled with hatred who inadvertently reveal 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 offered by the Trump team fails to align with observable realities and actual outcomes. As an instance, naval operations in the southern Caribbean frequently focus on small vessels which are not proven to be transporting drugs and incapable 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 neighboring countries on the continent.

The administration's stance extends to climate issues, with a rejection of "climate change ideology" and "carbon neutrality targets." There is a sentimental attachment to fossil fuels, especially coal mining, resulting in measures that force communities to invest in outdated and polluting power sources while sabotaging affordable, clean alternatives. At the same time, 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 born abroad are dangerous intruders. However, across the nation—in cities like L.A. and Charlotte, Chicago to Portland—it is the administration's own agents, the ICE and Border Patrol officers, whom local communities view as the unwelcome, violent invaders.

There is no clearer sign of the broad repudiation of this approach than the thousands of people mobilizing, demonstrating, facing danger and detention to defend their neighbors. Municipality after municipality has risen up in protection of its people. All the insults or intimidation can alter this fundamental truth.