The Trump Regime Wants to Make America White Again
Source: Fox News
Immigration enforcement is out of control, and the White House response has been to deflect, demonize, deny, and show utter indifference to the humanity of the people they’re trying to cage.
Mass Deportation
What is effective immigration enforcement? And what is it not? At its best, immigration enforcement is about secure borders, public safety, and widespread agreement on the rules of engagement.
It must recognize the powerful lure of America, the land of opportunity, where immigrants can work, thrive, and build stable lives for themselves and their families. It should also acknowledge that not everyone can share in America’s bounty.
Donald Trump is justifying his extreme mass deportation scheme by articulating an array of right-wing tropes that are, well, factually challenged: a) His 2024 reelection gave him a mandate, b) His regime is primarily deporting those with criminal records, the “worst of the worst,” and c) Noncitizens are voting en masse in national elections. His demonization of immigrants conceals the quiet part: Trump wants to recreate a white America that never existed.
Chaos and Cruelty in Our Backyard
Source: people.com
The news on the street is grim: Just last week, federal ICE agents took the lives of a young Colombian man gunned down in Maine and a 52-year-old Mexican immigrant shot to death in Houston. They join Minnesotans Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti in an unprecedented roll call of American residents killed amid ICE activity. At least 32 people have died in ICE custody.
Radley Balko of the NY Times was an eyewitness to some of ICE’s enforcement tactics:
Federal agents have aggressively pursued people in cars, sometimes by boxing them in, ramming them, or forcing them off the road. They’ve put themselves in front of moving vehicles. They’ve masked themselves and made traffic stops in unmarked vehicles. And they’ve fired their weapons into moving cars.
In a report recently filed by the American Civil Liberties Union, in which the ACLU reviewed more than 1,200 ICE enforcement actions across eight states between January and December of 2025, the findings reveal:
- 432 incidents of intimidation tactics and retaliation against observers and eyewitnesses;
- 418 times agents “shoved, tackled, or pinned people,” including 52 times agents pressed their knees and hands on people’s backs and necks;
- 361 times agents used chemical irritants, 132 of which were directed at individuals’ faces;
- 76 times agents pulled people from their cars.
The Trump regime has egged these agents on, often using nakedly racist language to rally the troops, and telling federal officers that they’re above the law.
Read: The Real Cost of Trump’s Deportation Scheme
Source: Business Standard
Racial Demogoguery
It is no secret that Trump has long used degrading language toward immigrants in pursuit of showing them the door. During his 2024 presidential campaign, Trump attacked the Haitian immigrant community in Springfield, Ohio, by claiming without evidence that they were eating their dogs and cats and other domestic animals. What wasn’t widely reported was that Trump apparently got that information from the neo-Nazi group Blood Tribe, which had been demonizing Springfield’s Haitians since that prior June on social media.
Indeed, Trump’s comments that immigrants are “poisoning the blood of our country” mirror the language of white supremacists and of Adolph Hitler’s “blood poisoning” in his autobiography Mein Kampf to oppose race mixing.
A key part of Trump’s messaging against immigrants is to deny their very humanity. Speaking about immigrants from Haiti and other African “shithole countries,” Trump declared, “The Democrats say, ‘Please don’t call them animals, they’re humans.’ I said, ‘No, they’re not humans, they’re not humans. They’re animals.'”
Rick Tyler is the perennially losing congressional candidate from Tennessee. Source: CNN
Read: The Big Lie 2.0: Noncitizen Voting
A Nation of Immigrants
The Trump regime’s fervent desire to make the American population more white is pure fantasy. First of all, US population growth is grinding down to near zero, the result of low fertility rates, an aging population, and, yes, a sharp decline in immigration. When a country’s working population is growing, it can create a “demographic dividend,” meaning increased productivity, a larger pool of potential talent, consumer demand, and higher tax revenue for public investment.
Fertility decline is especially ominous: US fertility is now at 1.6 children per woman of reproductive age, well below the 2.1 children needed to stabilize the population. This comes as childbearing is made tougher because of federal budget cuts to Medicaid and SNAP (food stamps), courtesy of Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill.
America can no longer count on an influx of foreign intelligentsia, given Trump’s outward hostility toward just about every European and Asian country on the map.
The fact is, America’s ability to thrive in an increasingly competitive world hinges on a steady flow of immigrants to its shores. This reality must torture Trump and Stephen Miller: To keep America great, it must get browner.
