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To that end, Trump and his acolytes have increasingly been using the term "reverse migration" and even proposed an "office of remigration". The idea, borrowed from white supremacists in Europe, understands immigrants as an inherent threat to the identity of what they imagine to be "white" nations. Immigrants' forcible and systematic removal " remigration " is envisioned as a way to "restore" that whiteness.

This vision of an ethnically cleansed, white US is being enacted in policy.

But it is not just through the physical brutalization that this ethnic cleansing is being executed. There is also violence in systematic disinvestment that disproportionately cuts essential lifelines for Black and brown people. The Big Beautiful Bill rolls back social spending, denying millions of people healthcare coverage, food benefits and welfare benefits. It enacts policies that exacerbate burdens of student debt. It raises the budgets of police and carceral facilities.