The wildly fashionable Puerto Rican rapper Bad Bunny says he’ll skip the United States throughout an upcoming world tour as a result of he fears raids by immigration brokers at his concert events.
Since July the singer has been taking part in to sold-out exhibits in San Juan, capital of the U.S. territory within the Caribbean.
He will kick off his “Debi Tirar Mas Fotos” (I Should Have Taken More Photos) worldwide tour, which is able to take him to Latin America, Australia, Japan and Europe, beginning in November.
The artist stated he won’t carry out exhibits within the United States, the place Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) officers have arrested tens of 1000’s of undocumented immigrants, a lot of them Latinos, beneath a crackdown ordered by President Donald Trump’s administration.
“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,” he advised the British journal i-D.
Bad Bunny stated his exhibits this summer season in Puerto Rico have been very profitable and he loved assembly Latinos who’ve lived within the continental United States.
He stated the issue is “ICE could be outside” U.S. live performance venues, utilizing an expletive to explain the company. “And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about.”
In June, Bad Bunny posted video footage on his social media channels from an ICE raid that occurred on his residence island.
Since Trump took workplace in January for a second time period, the variety of undocumented immigrants detained in police raids has reached report highs.
In June, there have been 60,254 such arrests within the United States, a report for that month, in contrast with 40,500 arrests in January 2025 earlier than Trump returned to the White House, based on an AFP evaluation of presidency knowledge.
In Puerto Rico, the place ICE additionally operates, 500 immigrants, primarily from the close by Dominican Republic, had been arrested within the first 4 months of Trump’s second time period, an ICE official, Rebecca Gonzalez-Ramos, stated in an interview on National Public Radio.
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