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