ICE to Attend Bad Bunny Super Bowl Show
ICE to Attend Bad Bunny Super Bowl Show
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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents will reportedly attend the 2026 Super Bowl following the announcement that Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny will headline the halftime show, according to Department of Homeland Security advisor Corey Lewandowski.
Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, better known as Bad Bunny, has sparked controversy after being selected to headline the Super Bowl halftime show, given that his music is exclusively in Spanish and he has previously voiced anti-ICE and anti-Trump sentiments.
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CONFIRMED: ICE will be active and on-site at Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance.
— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) October 1, 2025
Trump Advisor Corey Lewandowski warns: there’s no place ICE won’t go to remove criminal aliens from the US, even the Super Bowl:
"There is nowhere you can provide safe haven to people who are in… pic.twitter.com/kfKlGcuR7Q
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In a Wednesday interview on “The Benny Show” with host Benny Johnson, Lewandowski stated: “There is nowhere that you can provide safe haven to people who are in this country illegally. Not the Super Bowl and nowhere else.”
“We will find you,” Lewandowski continued. “We will apprehend you. We will put you in a detention facility, and we will deport you. So know that that is a very real situation under this administration, which is completely contrary to [how] it used to be.”
Lewandowski went on to criticize the NFL for choosing an artist who “just seems to hate America so much, to represent them at the [Super Bowl] halftime.”
“But listen, we should be trying to be inclusive and not exclusive,” he continued. “There are plenty of great bands and entertainment people out there who could be playing at that show that would be bringing people together and not separating them.”
“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, do yourself a favor: go home, we’ll buy you the plane ticket. Get out of the country and you’ll have a chance to come back legally,” he added.
“There were many reasons why I didn’t show up in the U.S., and none of them were out of hate — I’ve performed there many times,” Ocasio explained in a recent interview. “But there was 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.”
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Over the summer, Ocasio posted a video to his Instagram account of what appeared to be ICE agents carrying out a raid in Puerto Rico, calling the agents “Motherf***ers” and “Sons of b****es.”
Additionally, a slew of social media users have since criticized the Puerto Rican singer, pointing out that Ocasio has contradicted himself — first citing fears that “ICE could be outside” as the reason he skipped U.S. stops on his recent world tour — then later choosing to perform in California for the Super Bowl.
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