Lady Gaga has joined the voices critical of the actions of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Service and the violence carried out by Border Patrol agents in the United States, following the fatal shooting of two people in Minneapolis, and the mass arrests and deportations of immigrants in the United States carried out in recent months. In recent days, figures such as Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo have denounced ICE violence, while Bruce Springsteen has released a protest song.
In a speech given these days during a concert in Tokyo, Japan, the artist expressed her pain “when thinking about the people, the children, the families throughout the United States who are being mercilessly attacked by ICE.” “I think about all their pain and how their lives are being destroyed right in front of us,” he said, also noting that “in a few days” he will return to the United States. This Sunday, Gaga will perform at the Grammy Awards ceremony.
“I also think about Minnesota and everyone who is back home, living in so much fear… and looking for answers about what we should all do. When entire communities lose their sense of security and belonging, something breaks in all of us,” said the artist, who has asked her audience in Japan to show solidarity with the victims: “I know we are not in the United States right now, but we are with our community and we love them.”
Gaga dedicates her 2017 song ‘Come to Mama’ “to all the people who are suffering, to those who feel alone and helpless, to anyone who has lost a loved one and is going through a difficult time, an impossible time, without being able to see when the end will come.”
During her emotional speech, the singer emphasizes that American society “needs to return to a place of security, peace and responsibility,” and reasons that “good people should not have to fight so hard or risk their lives for well-being and respect.” In addition, he addresses the country’s leaders to ask them to “change course of their actions quickly and have mercy on everyone in our country.”
Gaga concludes her speech by highlighting the importance of having a community support network: “At a time when it doesn’t seem easy to have hope, it is my community, my friends and my family who support me. That’s why I would like to sing a song that does have a little hope, to try to give us a little tonight.”
Lady Gaga condemned ICE in a speech during her show in Japan: “I wanna take a second to talk about something that it’s extremely important to me, something important to people all over the world, and especially in America right now. In a couple of days I’m going to be heading home… pic.twitter.com/Bv3MVuUQmi
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