"Last weekend's announcement that global superstar Bad Bunny would be playing our Santa Clara Super Bowl this coming February was of course met by furious tantrums from the MAGA crowd, because Bad Bunny raps and sings mostly in Spanish. And after all, Bad Bunny said last month that he would not include US dates on his concert tour over concerns that ICE agents would gather en masse with the goal of arresting and deporting his fans."
"There is nowhere you can provide safe haven to people who are in this country illegally, Lewandowski said Wednesday while appearing on podcaster Benny Johnson's show. Not the Super Bowl and nowhere else. We will find you and apprehend you and put you in a detention facility, and deport you. Know that is a very real situation under this administration, which is contrary to how it used to be."
Bad Bunny was announced as the Santa Clara Super Bowl halftime performer, provoking right-wing backlash because he raps and sings mostly in Spanish. He said he would not include U.S. mainland dates on his tour over concerns ICE might target his fans. Corey Lewandowski claimed ICE would conduct operations at the Super Bowl and asserted there is nowhere to provide safe haven to people in the country illegally, promising apprehension and deportation. The rhetoric conflates Spanish-language fans with unauthorized immigrants and ignores that Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens eligible to attend without immigration risk. Super Bowl tickets typically cost about $4,000, making mass attendance by low-income fans unlikely.
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