"We only take people from shithole countries. Why can't we have some people from Norway, Sweden, just a few? From Denmark. Do you mind sending us a few people? Send us some nice people. But we always take people from Somalia, places that are a disaster, right? Filthy, dirty, disgusting, ridden with crime. Referring to the US representative Ilhan Omar's hijab as a little turban, Trump continued: She should get the hell out. Throw her the hell out."
"The rant is abhorrent and factually incorrect, but it does hold one truth the Trump administration's vision for the United States is one of a white Christian nation. And the path to accomplish it is through the exclusion and removal of all who do not fit that vision in other words, through ethnic cleansing. 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. Contrary to Trump's ranting, the United States did in fact restrict admission to only include white, European immigrants by law through much of the past century."
At a Pennsylvania rally on 9 December, Donald Trump attacked immigrants from non-European countries, expressed preference for Norwegians and Danes, and disparaged Representative Ilhan Omar, prompting chants of “Send her back.” The rhetoric reflects a White Christian nationalist vision that seeks to exclude and remove those who do not fit that identity, discussed as 'reverse migration' or 'remigration.' The concept, drawn from European white supremacists, frames immigrants as threats to racial identity and envisions their forcible, systematic removal to restore whiteness. The vision echoes past U.S. laws that favored white European immigrants until civil-rights victories abolished racial quotas, and contemporary policies are narrowing legal pathways and protections.
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