“Before I say thanks to God, I’m gonna say: ICE out!” proclaimed Bad Bunny on February 1, while accepting the Grammy award for best urban music album. Bad Bunny, one of the most well-known and awarded U.S. musicians today, repeated his pro-immigrant message a week later at the Super Bowl halftime show, without making an explicit anti-ICE statement, as in the Grammys. This time the musician delivered his message with a performance seen by millions as a pro-worker celebration of an America encompassing everyone from Alaska and Canada to the U.S. mainland, the Caribbean, and the entire central and southern parts of the continent. A feature of the halftime show — with more than 135 million people tuned in — were explicit expressions of Puerto Rican pride.

Feb. 13, 2026

“Before I say thanks to God, I’m gonna say: ICE out!” proclaimed trap and reggaeton artist Bad Bunny on February 1, while accepting the Grammy award for best urban music album.

The crowd inside the show, which took place in Los Angeles, overwhelmingly responded with cheers.

“We’re not savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens,” Bad Bunny added. “We are humans and we are Americans.”

The Grammy ceremony and Bad Bunny’s anti-ICE statement came in the context of the Trump administration’s brutal crackdown against immigrant workers, with hundreds of thousands of people arrested and deported in the last year, often violently. This anti-working-class assault has generated mass protests — particularly in Minnesota, which has become ground zero for the ICE dragnet. That’s where last month federal agents murdered volunteer observers Renee Good and Alex Pretti, both U.S. citizens, in cold blood.

Bad Bunny, one of the most well-known and awarded U.S. musicians today, repeated his pro-immigrant message a week later at the Super Bowl halftime show, without making an explicit political statement as he did in the Grammys.

    • FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
      27·
      1 day ago

      As I said, symbolic shit that liberals love and accomplishes nothing.

      But it’s not a logical equivalent because CK didn’t have nearly the opportunity here that Bad Bunny squandered.

      • ByteJunk@lemmy.world
        3·
        16 hours ago

        How about this, dipshit. Show us the videos of you standing up and making use of the opportunities you made for yourself to fight the good fight.

        Because if all you do is spit venom from your sofa because you can’t drag yourself up without a crane, the do the world a favour and shut the fuck up.