Immigration and Customs Enforcement, better known as ICE, is set to attend the 2026 Super Bowl, where the Puerto Rican singer will headline the halftime show, according to Corey Lewandowski, an adviser at the Department of Homeland Security.
“There is nowhere that you can provide safe haven to people in this country illegally. Not the Super Bowl and nowhere else,” Lewandowski said Wednesday on “The Benny Show.”
“We will find you. 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 what how it used to be,” he said.
Bunny, a three-time Grammy Award winner, is the most-streamed artist in the world, and now his legendary status will only get bigger as he is slated to perform the Super Bowl LX halftime show.
The Puerto Rican superstar has issues with ICE, which is why he skipped a USA tour over immigration raid concerns that could affect his fan base. He previously stated he and his team were ‘very concerned’ that ICE agents might target his performances.
In an interview with i-D magazine last month, Bad Bunny was asked whether he was skipping the US “out of concern about the [mass deportations of] Latinos.”
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As Bad Bunny is poised to make history as the first Super Bowl halftime artist to perform solely in Spanish, Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski claims that ICE agents will be there.
The decision makes sense for those who like Bad Bunny because he is a global superstar.
For others, it’s a move that seemingly disrespects American values, even though Puerto Rico is part of the United States.
Corey Lewandowski added, “It’s so shameful [the NFL has] decided to pick somebody who seems to hate America so much to represent them at the Halftime Show.”
Lewandowski worked as Trump’s campaign manager in the 2016 election and on the 2024 Trump campaign.
Bad Bunny has yet to release a statement on the matter.
