The administration of U.S. president Donald Trump continues to escalate the immigration warfare against colonized peoples as some 250 are to be deported to Rwanda, South Sudan and Eswatini (formerly know as Swaziland). Last year, in a failed scheme, the UK government paid Rwanda’s government £240 million ($310 million) to house asylum seekers deported from the UK.
The anti-immigration rhetoric has no red lines that white colonial leaders cannot cross. Trump does not want to be outdone by other colonial leaders. Every one of Trump’s actions on colonial immigration exposes the white colonial democracy as the dictatorship of the bourgeoisie against the colonized people of the world. Deporting or expelling asylum seekers is clearly a violation of the 1951 UN Refugee Convention. According to the UN convention, it’s a violation when States fail to uphold obligations to protect refugees, especially concerning non-refoulement (prohibition of returning refugees to their home countries), penalties for illegal entry and determining refugee status. Acts of persecution, discriminatory measures and denial of fair procedures are all violations.
However, this is part of a long-term policy trend from all bourgeois colonial nations to abrogate refugees and asylum rights and the basic democratic rights for all colonized and oppressed people everywhere.
Demonization of immigrants covers imperialist crisis
Trump demonizes immigrants to cover up for the deepening crisis of worldwide colonial capitalism. We recall in his 2016 campaign speech when he referred to Mexican immigrants as rapists. Two years later, he continued with his insults, calling Africa, Haiti and El Salvador “shithole” countries. Trump’s verbal diarrhea of insults against immigrants includes him comparing the United States to “a garbage can for the world,” because of illegal border crossings. He accused immigrants of “poisoning the blood of our country,” and spread falsehoods that Haitian immigrants were eating people’s pets.
The U.S. is the bloodiest barbarian State humanity has ever seen
More recently, he referred to people from Viet Nam, Laos, Myanmar, Cuba and Mexico as “sickos and barbaric.” Who are the barbarians? The colonized who come to these colonizer countries chasing their resources or the colonizers who came from far to steal land and resources around the world while murdering untold numbers of people along the way?
The colonized Mexican who is searching for work after seeing almost half of his country stolen on his own continent? The Vietnamese who were bombed with napalm bombs by the U.S. government for daring to resist the barbarism of U.S. weapons of mass destruction such as Agent Orange, etc? No, they are not the barbarians. The barbarians are the colonizers who impose this colonial violence against the rest of us.
Neocolonialism in Africa
Rwanda, Eswatini and South Sudan are the three renegade undignified African neocolonial States to have accepted to receive Trump’s deportees. The regimes of Rwanda (1994) and South Sudan (2011) are direct creations of the U.S. proxy military interventions in Africa. Paul Kagame and Salva Kiir Mayardit came to power through U.S. colonial wars–run from Uganda under the neocolonial regime of Yoweri Museveni, a key ally of the U.S. war against Africa in this Congo Basin region.
The U.S. weakened and balkanized Sudan with the creation of South Sudan. Museveni’s regime played a pivotal role in carrying it out. Eswatini is a country run by a backward monarch, Mswati III, who marries a new woman every year.
Freedom to travel and settle is for colonizers only
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) budget of $28 billion allows Trump to expand the U.S. white colonial bourgeois State and bribe leaders of the oppressed countries in Africa. Freedom to travel seemingly is for the citizens of oppressor nations who are guaranteed to travel to most places around the world without oppression or repression.
Whites invaded Africa first, then Asia, America, Australia and the Pacific islands and territories. They did not need a visa. They just took all the land and made themselves legal residents and the rest of us illegal immigrants. But anti-immigration laws are colonial laws used across the world against colonized and oppressed peoples everywhere by the colonial bourgeoisie.
It is not specific to Trump’s administration. Obama and Biden deported millions of immigrants. This is a policy ingrained in every colonial bourgeois ruling class on the planet. From Germany to the U.S., elections are decided by who can secure a better colonial life for white people at the expense of colonized peoples.
Today, the parties that are vying for power in Europe are known for being born on anti-immigration propaganda. In the last June 2024 Snap French parliamentary elections in France, Marine Le Pen’s Rassemblement National Party (RN) emerged as the largest political party in France with 33 percent of the vote, followed by the “Nouveau Front Populaire“ (NFP) led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon with 28 percent. Macron’s organization, the “Ensemble,” came third with 20 percent. Many political forces called for the immediate resignation of Macron from the French presidency following this resounding defeat.
In Germany’s last general election in February 2025, the coalition of the Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and the Christian Social Union (CSU) won with 28.6 percent against the Alternative for Germany (AfD), which came second after capturing 20.8 percent of the vote. In Italy, Georgia Meloni with her Brothers of Italy Party won the September 2022 general elections in Italy, while her closest rival obtained only 19.06 percent of the vote. Georgia Meloni now leads a coalition of far-right white nationalists in the government of Italy.
The anti-immigrant/anti-foreigner culture is not just in the U.S. It is throughout the whole of Europe, too. England is now experiencing an anti-immigrant fever sparked by the inability of the successive British governments to stop the decline of British imperialism. As a result, the Reform UK party, built on anti-immigration rhetoric and led by Nigel Farage, is riding high in the polls, threatening to end the historical dominance of Margaret Thatcher’s Conservative Party as the leading British white nationalist party.
Hanifa Safia Adan, the Kenya-based journalist and human rights advocate, wrote in a May 17 article in The Guardian that “in 1997, just 3 percent of Britons thought immigration was a key political issue. By the time of the Brexit referendum in 2016, that number had shot up to 48 percent.”
The immigration war will continue to rage as the crisis of imperialism deepens. The reality is that as long as the white power imperialist countries continue to steal the resources of colonized peoples, colonized peoples will continue to chase their resources back to these parasitic countries. If they want to end immigration, then they should do the work to build their own futures and stop sucking the lifeblood of the rest of us.
They will not do so. So it’s up to Africans and other colonized peoples around the world to take our future into our own hands and end this colonial relationship. We must stand against the colonial immigration warfare being waged against our people, and even further, we have to take our future into our own hands and end the parasitic relationships that the U.S. and Europe have imposed on us.
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