TRUMP'S WAR ON AMERICA

The Great Immigration Myth: Trump’s War on Diversity Is a War on America Itself

Donald Trump built his entire political career on a lie, the Great Immigration Myth: that immigrants are criminals, parasites, and threats to the American way of life. From the moment he descended his golden escalator in 2015, he launched a campaign not just against illegal immigration, but against non-white humanity itself. His goal was never to fix a broken system. His goal was always to make America white again.

Let’s be clear: there is no immigration crisis in the sense that Trump and his followers portray. What exists is a policy failure, one that could be remedied through the systems and laws we already have, if only they were supported, funded, and administered with compassion and common sense.

What is needed is:

• Expanded resources for legal processing and asylum review
• Safe, humane housing for those waiting for hearings
• A functional, well-funded pathway to citizenship for long-term residents
• Sensible vetting and security—not walls and bans
• And above all, legislation based on law and logic, not fear and hate

But instead of fixing the system, Trump is weaponizing it.
Instead of solving immigration, he is criminalizing it.
Instead of upholding the values of the Constitution, he is resurrecting the language of racial cleansing.

Yes, racial cleansing. Because that’s what happens when you deliberately paint one group of people as inferior, dangerous, and unwelcome, that’s what happens when you call immigrants “animals,” “vermin,” and “invaders.” That’s what happens when you build detention camps, separate families, and deport people who’ve lived here peacefully for decades. And if he has his way, it may not stop at deportation. History shows us where this path leads, chillingly reminiscent of the 1930s.

Make no mistake: immigration is not America’s problem. It is its solution.

We need people to come here to work, study, contribute, and lead. America’s economy depends on it, our universities thrive on it, and our population growth requires it. Without immigration, the American experiment slowly dies.

What Trump is selling is not protection, it’s regression. It is the desperate gasp of a dying ideology: that whiteness equals power, and diversity equals threat. But this ideology is not only immoral, it is dangerous, unsustainable, and economically suicidal.

If America is to survive and thrive in the 21st century, it must do so as a multiracial, multilingual, multicultural democracy. That is our strength, that is our identity, and that is what Trump fears most.

So let’s be honest about what his immigration crusade is:
Not a border policy.
Not a crime strategy.
Not national security.

It is a white nationalist project masquerading as patriotism. It is racial panic dressed in red, white, and blue. It rejects everything America could become, and once aspired to be.

Trump is not solving a crisis.
He is the crisis.

And the only moral, democratic, and patriotic response is to reject this lie completely—and to rebuild a system where immigrants are not feared, but welcomed. Where the Statue of Liberty still means something. Where America is not whitened, but enlightened.

Because in the end, immigration won’t destroy America. It just might save it.

William James Spriggs

THE GREAT LIE IS ABOUT COLOR

The Great Lie Isn’t About Crime, It’s About Color

Donald Trump’s anti-immigration campaign has never been about crime. It has always been about color. The myth that immigrants, mainly migrants from Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East, are criminal threats is a political ruse, a tool of manipulation dressed up as national security. But peel back the curtain, and the truth is clear: this is not about making America great again. It’s about making America white again.

Let’s start with the facts:
Numerous studies, by the Cato Institute, the American Immigration Council, and even government sources, consistently show that immigrants, both legal and undocumented, commit crimes at lower rates than native-born U.S. citizens. There is no statistical justification for singling out immigrants as a criminal class. And yet, Trump’s rhetoric continues to focus obsessively on “bad hombres,” “rapists,” and “animals.” The only purpose of this language is to dehumanize. To vilify. To divide.

And to justify expulsion.

Because what Trump and his followers truly fear is not lawlessness, but demographic change. The shift in America’s racial and cultural makeup threatens their imagined past, a past where whiteness meant power, privilege, and dominance. And so they wage a war against immigration under the pretense of law and order.

But here’s the greatest irony of all:
America needs immigrants more than ever.

The very people Trump demonizes are essential to the country’s economic vitality. Migrant labor drives agriculture, construction, caregiving, hospitality, and countless other industries. These workers aren’t taking jobs, they’re doing the jobs no one else will do. They are not a burden on America’s future; they are its foundation.

They come here not to harm, but to build.
They seek not to exploit, but to escape exploitation.
They flee violence, poverty, and oppression, often in countries destabilized by American policy, and in return, they bring hope, resilience, and an unmatched work ethic.

And yet Trump clings to his escalator lie, the one he told on day one: that he would “rid the country of criminals.” But if he genuinely cared about crime, he would focus on where it statistically exists. If he applied the same standard to white citizens that he applies to migrants, he’d be calling for mass deportations from his rallies.

But of course, he won’t because this was never about crime.
It’s about color.
It’s about control.
It’s about fear.

And it’s a lie that must be called what it is: xenophobic, racist, and un-American.

If we are to reclaim the moral compass of this nation, we must reject the poisonous idea that whiteness defines Americanness. We must elevate truth over myth, statistics over slogans, and shared humanity over shallow hatred.

Immigrants are not our enemies.
They are our neighbors, coworkers, caregivers, and future.

Let’s make America just again.
And leave the bigotry behind. Where it belongs.

William James Spriggs