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Next year’s Super Bowl may be an enlightening experience for those opposed to the enforcement of America’s immigration laws, as Department of Homeland Security Advisor Corey Lewandowski recently suggested that ICE agents may be on-site at next year’s big game.
While speaking on “The Benny Show” this week, Lewandowski was asked if ICE agents would be present at Super Bowl LX, which is slated to take place in Santa Barbara, California, next February.
“There is nowhere that you can provide safe haven to people who are in this country illegally,” Lewandowski said.
He added, “Not the Super Bowl, and nowhere else. We will find you, we will apprehend you, we will put you in a detention facility, and we will deport you. So know that this is a very real situation under this administration, which is completely contrary to how it used to be.”
This new comment from Lewandowski comes just after it was announced that “Bad Bunny,” a Puerto Rican performer who has drawn backslash from conservatives for his often X-rated content, has been selected to headline next year’s Super Bowl halftime show.
He is also expected to perform entirely in Spanish at the Super Bowl, according to Rolling Stone.
Lewandowski’s comments – and Benny Johnson’s question about whether ICE would be on-site – appear to stem directly from Bad Bunny’s decision not to tour in the U.S. this year, due to his opposition to the presence of immigration enforcement officers on American soil.
The artist told i-D magazine, “Latinos and Puerto Ricans of the United States could also travel here, or to any part of the world. But there was the issue of—like, f***ing ICE could be outside [my concert]. And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about.”
On the NFL’s often left-leaning choices, Lewandowski told Johnson, “The NFL has been so woke for so many years…it’s so shameful that they’ve decided to pick somebody who just seems to hate America so much to represent them at the halftime game.”
