by Sharelle B. McNair
October 3, 2025
Bunny’s efficiency shall be a primary within the U.S. since he began protesting in opposition to ICE by failing to carry out in any U.S. metropolis throughout his upcoming tour as a consequence of issues of raids.
The NFL’s announcement of getting Puerto Rican famous person Unhealthy 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 section of The Benny Present, Lewandowski boasted to host Benny Johnson that ICE has no limits on the subject of eradicating alleged unlawful aliens, even in the course of the Tremendous Bowl. “There’s nowhere which you can present a protected 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 state of affairs underneath 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 shall be a primary within the U.S., since he began protesting in opposition to ICE by failing to carry out in any U.S. metropolis throughout his upcoming tour as a consequence of issues of raids.
“Latinos and Puerto Ricans of america may additionally journey right here, or to any a part of the world. However there was the difficulty of — like, f—ing ICE could possibly be outdoors [my concert],” he mentioned throughout an interview with i-D Journal, in keeping with The Hill.
“And it’s one thing that we have been speaking about and really involved about.”
Nonetheless, in his determination to carry out on the recreation, scheduled to be performed in Santa Clara, California, Bunny, whose actual title 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 may 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 determination 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 help 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 in search of greater than possible gained’t be current on the recreation as a result of main expense.
”Sure, unlawful aliens are sometimes so wealthy, they’ll spend 1000’s on one ticket to see Unhealthy Bunny for quarter-hour. Kristi Noem’s boyfriend is even dumber than she is,” @kingcarol43 wrote.
Nonetheless, 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 increase field, apologizing to immigrants.
“I made a mistake. I need to apologize to the immigrants of America. … This nation is nothing with out Mexicans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Cubans.”
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