MAGA Influencers Advancing Trump's Racist Anti-Immigrant Agenda

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Social media platforms such as YouTube and Rumble act as superspreaders of anti-immigrant rhetoric and the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory, which is driving Trump’s violent remigration agenda

https://globalextremism.org/post/maga-influencers-advancing-trumps-racist-anti-immigrant-agenda/



Throughout January, Somalis across Minneapolis reported facing harassment, threats, and vandalized businesses after 23-year-old content creator Nick Shirley posted a viral video on X, YouTube, and Rumble in late December baselessly accusing the community of running fraudulent child care centers. It was reposted by Vice President JD Vance and Elon Musk.

Shirley’s video came in the wake of “Feeding Our Future” founder, Aimee Bock, a white American woman, being found guilty of a $250 million fraud scheme in March 2025. Further, 56 of Bock’s employees, many of whom are Somali-Americans, pleaded guilty to fraud as of September 2025. Despite ensuing investigations by Minnesota’s Department of Children, Youth, and Families finding the centers profiled by Shirley “operating as expected,” the Trump administration took advantage of the far-right outrage created by Shirley’s false claims, terminating Somalian immigrants’ Temporary Protected Status, and making Minneapolis and St. Paul the latest targets of his violent remigration strategy targeting non-white migrants, an ethnic cleansing plan for the United States based on the white supremacist “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory.

Shirley’s false claims are just one example of MAGA-connected influencers, who have a history of influencing the Trump administration, spreading anti-immigrant hatred on video platforms like Rumble, which has historically been unmoderated and a safe haven for neo-Nazis that has deep financial ties to key administration figures, and YouTube, where the failure to enforce its content rules has made the site now functionally similar to Rumble. MAGA figures such as Nick Shirley, Jack Posobiec, and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino, all capitalize on their strong ties to the Trump administration to spread anti-immigrant rhetoric and conspiracies to large audiences.



As the Trump administration violently enacts its remigration policy, which has resulted in the deaths of dozens in ICE custody, ICE killing an American citizen, (my add - this article was written the day before Alex Pretti was murdered by ICE) and a DHS officer permanently blinding a protester in one eye, Shirley, Posobiec, and Bongino peddle racist hatred as truth, with clearly devastating consequences.

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