Mexican guitarist Carlos Santana and Mexican-American singer Becky G released on Thursday the song ‘Mi gran amor’, a collaboration in which they denounce the harsh reality that thousands of Latinos currently live in the United States due to immigration raids.
With pop/rock rhythms, the song tells the story of several migrants who left their country in search of the American dream, but are detained on their way to work despite having committed no crime, leaving behind an entire family.
“It became a nightmare to look for the dream in the United States,” sings Becky G at one point in the single, accompanied by the guitar chords of the legendary Carlos Santana.
Both artists throw a dart at the ‘migra’, as the agencies in charge of immigration control and border enforcement in the United States are colloquially known.
Carlos Santana and Becky G track is dedicated to Latino immigrants
From “they have mistaken him for a bandit,” to a father with undocumented status with no crime, “just working,” the song reviews each of these fictitious cases that could well represent several of the thousands of migrants that the Administration of U.S. President Donald Trump has detained and deported in the last year and a half.
The launching of the issue coincides with an immigration offensive by the U.S. government, which justifies with its irregular status the massive raids against workplaces or meeting places of the migrant community.
However, nearly six out of every seven migrants detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in the first year of the current Trump Administration lacked a violent criminal history, according to information unveiled last February by CBS, based on a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) document.
ICE arrests in Trump’s first year were more than triple the 113,000 in 2024, the last full year of Joe Biden’s presidency (2021-2025), Agencia EFE reported.
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