The American singer Bruce Springsteen, a regular critic of Donald Trump’s administration, has once again charged against the Republican leader, stressing that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) service should leave Minneapolis “the hell out of here” and calling on citizens to convey their dissatisfaction to the president.
“If you think you don’t deserve to be killed for exercising your right to protest, send a message to this president. As the mayor of that city has said, ICE should get the hell out of Minneapolis,” he said this weekend.
The author of such classics as ‘Born in the U.S.A’ and ‘Born to Run’ included those who believe in the power of the law and that no one is above it, and those who oppose “heavily armed and masked” federal troops invading a city in the country “using Gestapo techniques” against their fellow citizens.
Springsteen spoke out Saturday at the Light of Day festival in New Jersey, where he dedicated the song ‘The Promised Land’ to the late Renee Good, a 37-year-old American who was shot in Minneapolis on Jan. 7 by an ICE agent at a protest.
Although the authorities claim that the man acted in self-defense because he thought the woman was going to run him over with her vehicle, the video that has circulated on social networks of what happened shows that the car’s wheels were not pointed at him.
Minnesota, the state of which Minneapolis is the largest city, has had another high-profile incident as a result of immigration enforcement.
Also this month, an ICE member injured a person in the leg during an arrest attempt. This has increased tension in the streets and the state authorities themselves have sued the government for these operations.
“We are living in incredibly critical times. America, the ideals and the values it has fought for over the last 250 years are being tested as never before in modern times. Those values and those ideals have never been more threatened than they are right now,” Springsteen added, according to statements reported by Variety magazine.
Trump has not yet spoken out in response to Springsteen’s words, but last May he called him an “overbearing asshole” after “The Boss” called the New Yorker’s government “corrupt, incompetent and traitorous” during a concert in the United Kingdom, reported Agencia EFE.
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