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As the political power of Donald Trump diminishes and his behavior grows increasingly volatile, there has been an escalation in vitriolic attacks aimed at women in media and ethnic communities, with Somali Americans as a recent focal point. These disparaging remarks gain traction stems from their malice and his platform, 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 goal extends beyond targeting individuals with criminal histories. The true target is anyone with brown skin.

This includes Indigenous peoples with official tribal documentation to American citizens by choice, from essential workers in construction and healthcare to those who served, college students, people in their own homes, and toddlers: a broad cross-section of the country's population is under siege.

"ICE operations are cruel, unjust and do nothing for community security," asserts a prominent New York City official. The spectacle of officers concealing their faces shattering windows and dragging parents away from infants, instilling fear and hindering the function of institutions, achieves the opposite effect.

These waves of calculated hatred—directed at Haitians during the election, Venezuelan migrants this spring, and most recently Somali Americans—lean heavily on defamatory falsehoods and insults. The reason is simple: the truthful data about these groups of people cannot support the animosity.

The Mythical White Nation Versus Actual History

The strategy of frightening and vilifying claims to seek 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 was never exclusively a "white country". In 1776, the original thirteen colonies contained a substantial percentage of African and Native American individuals—certain states in the South 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 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 exploration party almost one hundred years prior to the Mayflower's Puritan passengers reached the shores of New England in 1620.

Demographic Realities Against Coercive Fantasies

The systematic targeting of vast numbers of brown-skinned individuals and even mass deportations will not manufacture the all-white nation of extremist imagination. Los Angeles, for instance, is nearly half Latino, and despite enforcement outrages, detentions and removals, it remains so. Its name itself is Spanish, an enduring reminder of its original inhabitants.

All this hatred and oppression looks like the fear of racists attempting to believe they can stop the coming changes of a country no longer majority-white through sheer brutality.

It is coupled with an assault on reproductive rights that is, sometimes, explicitly designed to encourage white women to bear more babies. The argument points to a below-replacement birthrate in the US, a trend less impactful than in other countries due to a young, industrious immigrant workforce that sustains the economy. Yet, rather than providing the social support that could ease the burdens of parenthood, the strategy has been punitive and coercive.

A prominent journalist notes that the policies on childbirth of certain political figures—along with insults toward childless women—constitute a form of pronatalism. This philosophy "usually combines worries about declining birth rates with opposition to immigration and anti-feminist viewpoints."

Similarly, analyses show that "attempts to raise the birth rate cannot make up for wider administrative priorities designed to cut government assistance initiatives like Medicaid and children's health insurance. This focus on families isn't merely about promoting having children. Rather, it is utilized as a tool to push a right-wing political program that endangers women's health, reproductive rights, and economic participation."

Contradictory Strategies and Widespread Resistance

The combination of anti-immigration and pro-birth policies represent an attempt to forcibly alter the country's population future. Ultimately, they represent foolish bullying by individuals filled with hatred who unintentionally demonstrate that their assertions of being better must be rooted in race and gender; absent these categories, their positions devolve into meaningless idiocy.

Much of the justification put forward by the administration does not match up with tangible facts and real-world results. As an instance, maritime attacks in the southern Caribbean frequently focus on small vessels which are not proven to be carrying narcotics and not able of reaching US shores. Likewise, Venezuela's role in fentanyl trafficking is minimal, and its involvement with cocaine is much smaller 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 "carbon neutrality targets." There is a sentimental commitment to coal and oil, especially coal mining, resulting in measures that compel localities to invest in obsolete and toxic energy sources while sabotaging cheaper, cleaner renewables. Concurrently, health officials have promoted anti-scientific dietary schemes while eroding broader health protections.

The foundational assumption of the anti-immigrant offensive is that people of color born abroad are dangerous intruders. Yet, from coast to coast—in cities like L.A. and Charlotte, Chicago to Portland—the government's own forces, the ICE and Border Patrol officers, whom many residents perceive as the dangerous and hostile interlopers.

There is no clearer sign of the broad repudiation of these tactics than the thousands of people mobilizing, demonstrating, risking safety and arrest to protect their communities. Municipality after municipality has risen up in defense of its residents. All the insults or intimidation can change that reality.