Today is the fourth anniversary of then-president Trump’s unsuccessful coup d’état to remain in power beyond his elected term. In two weeks’ time, “we the people” will inexplicably hand over the reigns of the American empire to this feeble dictator and his cadre of corrupt, stunningly unqualified oligarchs. Each item on their agenda is a grizzly, slow-motion car crash, but one initiative is particularly haunting: mass deportation.

Securing national borders in order to protect citizens from outside harm is indeed a worthwhile cause. But national security and the rule of law are not this next administration’s true concerns. (After all, the President-elect is a convicted felon and sexual predator, twice impeached, who eschews background checks for his cabinet picks—a clear threat to national security.) Instead, the next president’s fixation on illegal immigration is fueled by his racism and a desire to amass and abuse executive power at any cost.