Under the phrase ‘ICE Out’ and ‘Chinga la migra’, a phrase loaded with a historical Chicano and Latino sense of resistance, the campaign uses the image of the stuffed animal that the Puerto Rican artist turned into a cult object to demand the end of the operations of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE, in English).
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Posters began to appear on the streets of downtown San Francisco, where the NFL headquarters is located, in the days leading up to Super Bowl LX, as a sign of protest against immigration raids and deportation policies that have shaken the United States in recent months. The origin of this campaign is unknown, which arises in one of the most pioneering sanctuary cities in the United States. San Francisco has the power to limit the collaboration of its police forces with federal immigration authorities. However, this protection has been tested by the intensification of control tactics by the US Administration in recent months in cities like Minneapolis, whose raids resulted in the death of two civilians at the hands of ICE agents and the Customs and Border Protection Office (CBP). NFL’s head of security, Cathy Lanier, ruled out this week the presence of ICE in immigration operations during Super Bowl LX, headlined by Puerto Rican star Bad Bunny. The decision to choose the ‘bad bunny’ to headline the halftime show of the world’s most-watched sporting event sparked criticism among the most conservative sectors of the Republican Party, who have reproached that the artist sings in Spanish on the most American stage. The U.S. President, Donald Trump, called the choice of Bad Bunny “ridiculous” and confirmed that he will not attend the country’s most important sporting event of the year for being against the singer. “I think it’s a terrible choice. The only thing he does is sow hatred. Terrible,” he said.
