ICE officers to do the Super Bowl patrols on Bad Bad Bunny’s first half?
The US Football Association believed that it was announcing the end of the first half. But the moment the Bad Bunny was detected as a performance of 2026 Super Bowl, conservative anger exploded. This says more about America more than it does about music.
Let’s be real – bad rabbit is not just another bob star. Benito Antonio Martinez Okasio was born, a Portorico artist who refuses to absorb what power structures require. He sings in the Spanish language, criticizes the Trump administration, challenges the roles of the sexes, and publicizes publicly from migrant societies – all of this while dominating global plans. In less than a decade, it has become one of the largest stars in the world, as Taylor Swift, Drake and The Weeknd are competing.
the difference? He does this in America often tries to silence.
Silence is exactly what Trumporld wants. Since they cannot directly cancel its performance, they threaten the ice weapon. “There is no place where you can provide a safe haven for people in this country illegally. Not Super Bowl and not anywhere else,” said Cori Lewandowski, adviser to the Ministry of Internal Security, recently at The Benny Show.
He went on to say, “We will find you. We will arrest you. We will put you in a detention facility, and we will miss.”
Think about that. Super Bowl – which aims to unify millions – is converted into a stage of fear.
This is not the first time that Bad Bunny was concerned about the ICE targeting its fans. Earlier this year, Id told that it had overcome a tour of the continent from the United States out of concern that Latinians could be exposed to raids. This is not crazy, it’s a fact. Trump’s speech encouraged people to complain when someone speaks to Spanish in public places, to anti -immigrant insults, to address entire societies as a threat.
We have seen this before. After Hurricane Maria Portorico was destroyed in 2017, the American response was slow and refusal. A conservative comedy until Puerto Rico described it as a “floating garbage island”. The bad rabbit did not clap with insults. Instead, he published an amazing greeting to the island – its beauty, its people and its dignity. This is the way he fights: with love, proudly, with art.
So when critics call it “anti -ice” or say that he “hates America”, what they really mean is that he refuses to reduce himself or his culture to make them comfortable. He is proud of his heritage and carries it on the largest stages in the world.
Bad Bunny put itself better when I announce the news of Super Bowl: “What I feel goes beyond myself. It is for those who came in front of me and ran an endless arenas so that I can enter the landing. This is for my people, my culture, and our history.”
This is the point. This offer at the end of the first half is not only related to entertainment. It is an advertisement. It is a love message to Puerto Rico, Latinists throughout the Americas, and the Latinians born here in the United States – because you are you We are American. It is a reminder that you belong here, and that you deserve to flourish without constantly wondering or being attacked or criminalized because of the way you look or the language you speak.
However, the reality is brutal: last month, the conservative majority of the Supreme Court surveyed the road to ICE to allocate millions of Spanish speakers in Los Angeles, and raised a restricted order to prevent federal agents from preventing people only because of their race, language, job, or even living. So when Bad Bunny takes this Super Bowl stage, the music will not only be – it will be resistant in actual time. Performing in the face of policies and prejudice designed to erase Latin identity. This will also be evidence that despite these uncompromising attacks, millions of Americans stand beside you, fight on the right side of history, and they refused to allow fear to determine who will get belonging.
“Success does not require you to make yourself palatable to people who have no taste.”
Lindsey Granger is a contributor to News Nation and a host in the Hill Comment Show “RISING”. This column is copies edited for hanging on the air.
