How serious is talk about ICE patrolling the Super Bowl over Bad Bunny? |
I know more about Bugs Bunny than I will ever know about Bad Bunny. But here’s what I do know: Bad Bunny is a wildly popular rapper from Puerto Rico. He’s no fan of Donald Trump — surprise, surprise — and he’ll be headlining the Super Bowl halftime show next February in Santa Clara, Calif.
Bunny tends to attract a big Latin crowd. So Kristi Noem, who heads up Homeland Security, has come up with what she seems to think is a brilliant idea. She says she’s going to send Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents to the Super Bowl to look for and arrest (presumably Latino-looking) people who might be in the U.S. illegally.
Sound insane? That’s because it is.
Noem was a guest on conservative podcaster Benny Johnson’s show and he asked her point-blank whether there would be “ICE enforcement” at the Super Bowl. Without missing a beat, Noem said, “There will be.” ICE agents, she assured us, would be “all over” the event.
And then came the kicker. “People should not attend the game,”........