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