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As Donald Trump's influence wanes and his behavior grows increasingly volatile, he has intensified vitriolic attacks aimed at women in media and ethnic communities, including Somali immigrants being the latest target. The impact of these insults stems from the animosity behind them and his position, not their factual accuracy. In a parallel manner, the government's actions against immigrants are poorly executed and driven by misinformation. The evidence makes it obvious that the objective is not targeting those who have committed crimes. The true target is anyone with brown skin.

This includes Indigenous peoples carrying tribal IDs to American citizens by choice, individuals performing critical jobs in construction and healthcare to those who served, university attendees, people in their own homes, and toddlers: a broad cross-section of the country's inhabitants are being threatened.

"ICE operations are brutal, inhumane and achieve nothing for public safety," states a prominent New York City official. The spectacle of officers concealing their faces breaking car glass and separating parents from children, terrorizing entire communities and disrupting schools and businesses, achieves the opposite effect.

These waves of calculated hatred—focusing on Haitians during the election, Venezuelans this year, and most recently Somali Americans—rely extensively on defamatory falsehoods and insults. The reason is simple: the actual facts about these communities cannot support such hostility.

The Mythical Nation of White People Versus Actual History

This campaign of terror and demonization purports to aim at rebuilding a homogeneously white America which is a fiction. Although America had a larger white population in the mid-20th century, it never constituted a purely white nation. At the nation's founding, the thirteen founding colonies included a significant percentage of Black and Indigenous peoples—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 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 this land came as part of a Spanish expedition nearly a century prior to the Mayflower's English Puritans reached the shores of New England in 1620.

Population Truths Versus Coercive Fantasies

The persecution of huge populations of brown-skinned individuals and even mass deportations will not manufacture the ethnically pure country of extremist imagination. A city like Los Angeles, for instance, is nearly half Latino, and despite enforcement outrages, arrests, and deportations, it remains so. The city's very name 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 halt the demographic future of a country no longer majority-white through sheer brutality.

This is paired 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 fertility rate below replacement level in the US, a trend less impactful than in other countries because of a hard-working population of immigrant laborers which keeps the economy functioning. Yet, instead of offering the societal assistance that could ease the burdens of parenthood, the approach is 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 ideology "typically merges concerns over falling fertility with opposition to immigration and anti-women's rights ideas."

Similarly, reporting indicates that "attempts to raise the fertility rate do not compensate for broader policies aimed at slashing government assistance initiatives like Medicaid and children's health insurance. This focus on families isn't merely about promoting having children. Instead, it is being weaponized to advance a conservative agenda that endangers women's health, bodily autonomy, and labor force involvement."

Contradictory Strategies and Public Rejection

Together, the anti-immigrant and pronatalist policies constitute an effort to artificially redirect the nation's demographic trajectory. In the end, 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 arguments collapse into incoherent nonsense.

A lot of the reasoning put forward by the administration does not match up with observable realities and actual outcomes. As an instance, naval operations in the southern Caribbean often target tiny boats which are not proven to be transporting drugs and incapable of making it to the United States. Similarly, Venezuela's role in the fentanyl trade is minimal, and its role in cocaine trafficking is far less than that of other South American nations.

The administration's stance extends to environmental policy, with a dismissal of "climate change ideology" and "carbon neutrality targets." An emotional attachment to fossil fuels, particularly coal, leading to policies that force communities to invest in obsolete and toxic energy sources while sabotaging affordable, clean alternatives. Concurrently, health officials have promoted anti-scientific dietary schemes while eroding general public health safeguards.

The foundational assumption of the attacks on immigrants is that people of color born abroad are threatening outsiders. Yet, from coast to coast—in cities like L.A. and Charlotte, from Chicago to Portland—it is the administration's own agents, immigration enforcement personnel, whom local communities view as the unwelcome, violent invaders.

There is no clearer sign of the broad repudiation of these tactics than the countless individuals organizing, protesting, facing danger and detention to defend their neighbors. Municipality after municipality has stood up in protection of its people. No amount of derogatory language and threats can change that reality.