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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, with Somali Americans being the latest target. The impact of these insults stems from their malice and his platform, not any basis in truth. In a parallel manner, his administration's offensive 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.

From Native Americans with official tribal documentation to American citizens by choice, from essential workers in building sites and hospitals to military veterans, university attendees, residents asleep in their beds, and toddlers: a wide array of the country's population is under siege.

"ICE operations are brutal, inhumane and do nothing for public safety," states a prominent New York City official. The spectacle of masked agents 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—directed at Haitians during the election, Venezuelans this year, and most recently Somali Americans—lean heavily on defamatory falsehoods and insults. This is because: the actual facts about these groups of people do not justify such hostility.

The Imaginary White Nation Versus Actual History

This campaign of terror and demonization purports to aim at recreating a homogeneously white America which is a fiction. Although America had a larger white population in the youth of today's white supremacists, it was never exclusively a "white country". In 1776, the original thirteen colonies included a significant percentage of Black and Indigenous peoples—certain states in the South had Black populations exceeding a third.

Following American expansion, annexing Texas in 1844 and seizing Mexico's northern territories in 1848, it absorbed a vast Spanish-speaking population long established in what is now the Southwestern U.S. and California. It is documented that the first African Muslim in territory that became the U.S. came as part of a Spanish exploration party nearly a century before the Mayflower Puritan passengers landed in Massachusetts in 1620.

Population Truths Against Forced Dreams

The persecution of vast numbers of brown-skinned individuals and even mass deportations will not manufacture the all-white nation of extremist imagination. A city like 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 ongoing testament 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 through sheer brutality.

This is paired with an attack on abortion access 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 phenomenon less impactful than in other countries because of a young, industrious immigrant workforce that sustains the economy. Yet, rather than providing the societal assistance that might make raising children easier, the approach is based on punishment and force.

An noted writer observes that the reproductive politics of certain political figures—along with insults aimed at women without children—amount to pronatalism. This philosophy "usually combines concerns over falling fertility with opposition to immigration and anti-women's rights ideas."

Similarly, analyses show that "attempts to raise the birth rate do not compensate for wider administrative priorities aimed at slashing federal support programs like Medicaid and children's health insurance. The so-called 'pro-family' focus isn't merely about promoting having children. Rather, it is utilized as a tool to push a right-wing political program that threatens women's health, reproductive rights, and labor force involvement."

Contradictory Strategies and Public Rejection

The combination of anti-immigration and pronatalist policies constitute an effort to artificially redirect the country's population future. In the end, they represent foolish bullying by proponents of hate who inadvertently reveal that their assertions of being better must be rooted in race and gender; absent these categories, their positions devolve into meaningless idiocy.

A lot of the reasoning offered by the Trump team fails to align with observable realities and actual outcomes. For example, maritime attacks in the Caribbean Sea frequently focus on tiny boats which are not proven to be carrying narcotics and not able of making it to the United States. Likewise, Venezuela's role in fentanyl trafficking is negligible, and its role in cocaine trafficking is far less than that of other South American nations.

The government's position extends to environmental policy, with a dismissal of "climate change ideology" and "carbon neutrality targets." An emotional commitment to fossil fuels, especially coal mining, resulting in measures that force communities to invest in outdated and polluting energy sources while undermining cheaper, cleaner renewables. At the same time, public health leadership have advanced anti-scientific dietary schemes while eroding broader health protections.

The core premise of the attacks on immigrants is that non-white individuals born abroad are threatening outsiders. However, across the nation—from Los Angeles to Charlotte, Chicago to Portland—it is the administration's own agents, immigration enforcement personnel, whom local communities perceive as the unwelcome, violent invaders.

No symbol is more powerful of the widespread rejection of this approach than the thousands of people mobilizing, demonstrating, risking safety and arrest to protect their communities. City after city has stood up in protection of its people. No amount of derogatory language and threats can alter this fundamental truth.