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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 being the latest target. The impact of these insults stems from the animosity behind them and his position, not any basis in truth. In a parallel manner, his administration's offensive against immigrants are poorly executed and driven by misinformation. It is abundantly clear that the objective is not targeting individuals with criminal histories. The true target is people of color.

This includes Indigenous peoples with official tribal documentation to naturalized US citizens, individuals performing critical jobs in construction and healthcare to those who served, university attendees, residents asleep in their beds, and toddlers: a wide array of the country's inhabitants are being threatened.

"ICE operations are cruel, unjust and achieve nothing for community security," states a leading political figure from New York. Scenes featuring officers concealing their faces shattering windows and dragging parents away from infants, instilling fear and hindering the function of institutions, undermines safety entirely.

The cycles of calculated hatred—focusing on Haitians during the election, Venezuelans this year, and now Somalis—rely extensively on libelous lies and slurs. This is because: the actual facts about these groups of people cannot support the animosity.

The Imaginary Nation of White People and Historical Reality

This campaign of terror and demonization purports to aim at rebuilding 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 Black and Indigenous peoples—certain states in the South 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 Spanish-speaking population long established in the modern Southwest and California. Historical records show the initial Muslim of African descent in this land came as part of a Spanish expedition almost one hundred years prior to the Mayflower's English Puritans landed in Massachusetts in 1620.

Population Truths Versus Forced Dreams

The persecution of huge populations of people of color and attempts at large-scale expulsion cannot fabricate the ethnically pure country of extremist imagination. A city like Los Angeles, for instance, is close to 50% Hispanic, and regardless of aggressive enforcement, detentions and removals, its character persists. The city's very name is Spanish, an ongoing testament of its original inhabitants.

All this hatred and persecution resembles the panic of racists who pretend they can halt the demographic future of a country no longer predominantly white by using pure cruelty.

This is paired with an assault on reproductive rights that is, sometimes, explicitly designed 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 because of a hard-working population of immigrant laborers that sustains the economy. However, instead of offering the social support that might make raising children easier, the approach is based on punishment and force.

A prominent journalist notes that the policies on childbirth espoused by figures like JD Vance—along with insults aimed at women without children—constitute a form of pronatalism. This philosophy "typically merges concerns over falling fertility with opposition to immigration and anti-feminist viewpoints."

Similarly, analyses show that "efforts to bolster the birth rate do not compensate for wider administrative priorities aimed at slashing federal support programs like healthcare for the poor and children's health insurance. This focus on families is not just for encouraging procreation. Instead, it is utilized as a tool to push a right-wing political program that endangers women's health, reproductive rights, and labor force involvement."

Incoherent Policies and Widespread Resistance

The combination of anti-immigration and pronatalist policies constitute an effort to artificially redirect the country's population future. Ultimately, they represent 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 arguments collapse into incoherent nonsense.

Much of the justification put forward by the administration fails to align with observable realities and actual outcomes. For example, maritime attacks in the southern Caribbean often target small vessels not confirmed to be carrying narcotics and not able of reaching US shores. Similarly, Venezuela's role in the fentanyl trade is negligible, and its involvement with cocaine 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 "Net Zero goals." An emotional commitment to fossil fuels, particularly coal, resulting in measures that force communities to invest in obsolete and toxic power sources while sabotaging cheaper, cleaner renewables. At the same time, public health leadership have advanced anti-scientific dietary schemes while weakening broader health protections.

The foundational assumption of the anti-immigrant offensive is that people of color born abroad are dangerous intruders. However, across the nation—from Los Angeles to Charlotte, from Chicago to Portland—the government's own forces, immigration enforcement personnel, whom local communities view as the dangerous and hostile interlopers.

There is no clearer sign of the broad repudiation of these tactics than the thousands of people organizing, protesting, facing danger and detention to defend their neighbors. City after city has stood up in defense of its residents. All the insults or intimidation can alter this fundamental truth.