October 3, 2025
Bunny’s efficiency might be a primary within the U.S. since he began protesting towards ICE by failing to carry out in any U.S. metropolis throughout his upcoming tour on account of issues of raids.
The NFL’s announcement of getting Puerto Rican celebrity Dangerous Bunny carry out on the 2026 Tremendous Bowl halftime present has the MAGA world in an uproar, leading to Division of Homeland Safety adviser Corey Lewandowski launching threats to have U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers current.
Throughout a phase of The Benny Present, Lewandowski boasted to host Benny Johnson that ICE has no limits in the case of eradicating alleged unlawful aliens, even in the course of the Tremendous Bowl. “There’s nowhere you can present a secure haven to folks on this nation illegally. Not the Tremendous Bowl and nowhere else,” he mentioned.
“We’ll discover you. We’ll apprehend you. We’ll put you in a detention facility, and we are going to deport you. So know that that may be a very actual scenario beneath this administration, which is totally opposite to the way it was.”
The three-time Grammy winner has had MAGA supporters seemingly up in arms because the announcement was made Sept. 28. Bunny’s efficiency might be a primary within the U.S., since he began protesting towards ICE by failing to carry out in any U.S. metropolis throughout his upcoming tour on account of issues of raids.
“Latinos and Puerto Ricans of the US might additionally journey right here, or to any a part of the world. However there was the problem of — like, f—ing ICE could possibly be outdoors [my concert],” he mentioned throughout an interview with i-D Journal, based on The Hill.
“And it’s one thing that we had been speaking about and really involved about.”
Nevertheless, in his choice to carry out at the recreation, scheduled to be performed in Santa Clara, California, Bunny, whose actual identify is Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, mentioned it’s not nearly him. “What I’m feeling goes past myself. It’s for many who got here earlier than me and ran numerous yards so I might are available in and rating a landing … that is for my folks, my tradition and our historical past,” Bunny mentioned in an announcement.
Lewandowski went on to slam the NFL’s choice to host the performer, saying the league has “been so woke for thus a few years,” mentioning the controversy behind former quarterback Colin Kaepernick, who was seemingly blacklisted for kneeling in the course of the nationwide anthem in assist of victims of police brutality. “They lastly determined to make a comeback, they lastly had folks standing for our nice nationwide anthem, however keep in mind these guys, Colin Kaepernick used to say, ‘effectively I wasn’t being chosen to play on the NFL crew as a result of I used to be kneeling,’ no, you sucked,” the previous supervisor to President Donald Trump’s 2016 marketing campaign mentioned.
The backlash resulted in large responses on social media, with some stating that MAGA doesn’t notice that the performer is from Puerto Rico, an American territory. Others level out that the “unlawful aliens” that brokers are looking for greater than seemingly gained’t be current on the recreation because of the main expense.
”Sure, unlawful aliens are usually so wealthy, they’ll spend hundreds on one ticket to see Dangerous Bunny for quarter-hour. Kristi Noem’s boyfriend is even dumber than she is,” @kingcarol43 wrote.
Nevertheless, the performer doesn’t appear to be nervous about threats and has by no means been. The music video for his track “NUEVAYoL” from his newest album, Debí Tirar Más Fotos, depicts a Trump-like voice talking over a growth field, apologizing to immigrants.
“I made a mistake. I wish to apologize to the immigrants of America. … This nation is nothing with out Mexicans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Cubans.”
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