TRUMP'S PURE RACISM

Trump’s War on Immigration Is a War on Color

It may sound like a cliché by now, but that doesn’t make it any less accurate: Donald Trump’s anti-immigration campaign is, at its core, a campaign of racism. It is not about national security. It is not about jobs. It is not about the rule of law. It is, and always has been, about one thing: purging America of people who are not white.

“Make America Great Again” was never a call to progress. It was a siren for regression to a time when whiteness reigned unchallenged, unquestioned, and uninterrupted by the color, culture, and voices of the rest of the world. When Trump talks about an “invasion,” he doesn’t mean Canadians. When he rants about crime, he isn’t referencing Russian oligarchs or European cartels. He means brown people. Black people. Asian people. Anyone not like him is white, male, rich, and cruel.

From day one, his entire political persona was launched on the back of birtherism, the racist lie that Barack Obama, a Black man, was not legitimately American. Since then, he has only doubled down:

• Calling Mexicans “rapists” and “criminals” in his campaign announcement.
• Separating children from their families at the border, warehousing them in cages.
• Banning Muslims from entering the country purely for their religion and origin.
• Ending DACA and TPS, programs that protect young immigrants and refugees from disaster.
• Slashing legal immigration, not just illegal, because even the lawful presence of non-white people is too much for his white nationalist vision.

Let’s not pretend there’s some deeper strategy here. There isn’t. Trump would burn down the entire economy if it meant reducing the number of people of color in this country. He knows we rely on immigrants at every level: doctors, scientists, engineers, teachers, field workers, caregivers, builders, and cleaners. But he doesn’t care. If the work stops, let it stop—as long as it stops being done by people who don’t look like him.

This is not nationalism. It is not patriotism. It is plain old American racism, reborn with a red hat and a louder microphone. The “nation” he wants to defend is not the nation of laws, liberty, or equal opportunity. It is the nation of Jim Crow, of whites-only signs, of “good old days” that were hell for most of humanity.

Trump doesn’t just hate immigrants. He fears them. Every immigrant who thrives, who builds a life, who rises to leadership disproves his entire worldview that only white men should rule. He cannot tolerate that reality. So he lies, he scapegoats, and he unleashes policies that are as cruel as they are calculated.

We must not let the fatigue of repetition dull the truth. This is racism weaponized through policy. It is government used as a tool for ethnic cleansing by attrition, deportation by design, detention by deterrent, and denial of humanity by decree.

And yes, we must keep saying it. Over and over and over. Because silence is complicity. And the moment we stop naming this evil for what it is, we’ve allowed it to win.

Let’s be clear: Trump’s agenda isn’t about “immigration.” It’s about white supremacy dressed in bureaucratic language and violence. He enriches himself at the top and cleanses the bottom of anyone not like him.

It’s not a dog whistle anymore. It’s a siren.

William James Spriggs