The Trump administration is setting its sights on the NFL — and one of the biggest pop stars in the world.
Corey Lewandowski, a former campaign manager for Donald Trump who currently serves as an informal advisor to Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, announced on Wednesday that the Trump administration plans to send Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents to the upcoming Super Bowl during Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny‘s Halftime Show.
“There is nowhere you can provide safe haven to people who are in this country illegally. Not the Super Bowl and nowhere else,” Lewandowski said on Wednesday’s episode of the conservative YouTube interview program The Benny Show. “We will find you and apprehend you and put you in a detention facility and deport you.”
“Know that is a very real situation under this administration, which is contrary to how it used to be,” Lewandowski shared. “It’s so shameful they’ve decided to pick somebody who seems to hate America so much to represent them at the Halftime Show.”
Bad Bunny, the stage name of rapper, singer, and producer Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, plans to stop in the U.S. on his current Debí Tirar Más Fotos tour only once, for the recently announced Super Bowl Halftime Show. Bad Bunny clarified in a September interview that there are “many reasons why I didn’t show up in the U.S.,” chief among them: “The issue of – like, f—ing ICE could be outside [my concert]. And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about.”
Bad Bunny is from Puerto Rico, an official territory of the United States, making him a U.S. citizen. Still, Lewandowski warned, “If there are illegal aliens, I don’t care if it’s a concert for Johnny Smith or Bad Bunny or anybody else. We’re going to do enforcement everywhere. We are going to make Americans safe. That is a directive from the president. If you’re in this country illegally, go home.”
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Beyond avoiding U.S. tour stops out of concern for his fans who may be vulnerable in an ICE raid, some of which have been criticized as vicious and unconstitutional, Bad Bunny has been a vocal critic of the Trump administration, particularly its immigration policy.
The musician shared a video to his 49 million followers on Instagram in June depicting an ICE raid underway in the Puerto Rican city of Carolina.
“Look, those motherf—ers are in these cars, RAV4s…instead of leaving the people alone and working,” he remarked.
In July, Bad Bunny shared the music video for his new Debí Tirar Más Fotos track “NUEVAYoL,” which features a mocking voiceover that sounds like Trump and political imagery, including the Puerto Rican flag hanging off the side of the Statue of Liberty.
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