Honestly, depending on your ethnicity or where you live, touring as a musician in the U.S. these days seems difficult because of that for you and your fans. I don’t get why anyone overseas would want to tour in the U.S. right now.
I don’t get why anyone from overseas would come to the US right now. They can just randomly decide today’s your day and throw you in prison in Louisiana for no reason at all.
It’s not even that. They are demanding to go through visitor’s phones, and denying entry if they’ve criticized Trump on social media.
Imagine you’ve saved for a few years for a big trip to America, bought plane and theme parks tickets, put down deposits on lodging, pre-paid for car rentals, arrange for time off for everyone in the group, etc., only to get turned away at the border because you said something negative about the worst president in American history.
There are an infinite number of places in the world to visit that will be just as fun and relaxing. No need to go to the one place that won’t welcome you and your money.
The problem is that the determination that you are a good person or not, is being made by very bad people. Your characterization of yourself as “good” is irrelevant.
Trump couldn’t even answer a reporter’s basic questions about the Declaration of Independence. He certainly wouldn’t understand the concept that God himself endowed ALL people with Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - three things that MAGAs despise.
Just minor clarification: being born in Puerto Rico, Bad Bunny is a US citizen and (theoretically) wouldn’t need to fear being deported, but some of his fans might.
But given that ICE is just straight up targeting brown people and holding them indefinitely regardless of legal status or citizenship, it’s still too great a risk to do anything in the US.
He probably also has band and crew members from countries other than PR as well, so he has to worry about them, too. Also, it can’t be easy to coordinate visas for all those people right now. I’ll bet the resistance for a tour like that would be high.
And you are right about being fraudulently detained. He may be a US citizen, but they’ll still hate him for being brown. The Puerto Rican Loophole surely pisses them off. It would be just like the MAGA Nazis to fraudulently detain, and even deport, key personnel, just to fuck up the tour, and cost him millions.
US citizen and (theoretically) wouldn’t need to fear being deported
I’ve literally seen border control agents in the airport not know that PR means US Citizen right in front of me. And ICE actively boasts about deporting people to random countries completely unrelated to the person being deported. Reality isn’t going to stop them.
Honestly, depending on your ethnicity or where you live, touring as a musician in the U.S. these days seems difficult because of that for you and your fans. I don’t get why anyone overseas would want to tour in the U.S. right now.
I don’t get why anyone from overseas would come to the US right now. They can just randomly decide today’s your day and throw you in prison in Louisiana for no reason at all.
It’s not even that. They are demanding to go through visitor’s phones, and denying entry if they’ve criticized Trump on social media.
Imagine you’ve saved for a few years for a big trip to America, bought plane and theme parks tickets, put down deposits on lodging, pre-paid for car rentals, arrange for time off for everyone in the group, etc., only to get turned away at the border because you said something negative about the worst president in American history.
There are an infinite number of places in the world to visit that will be just as fun and relaxing. No need to go to the one place that won’t welcome you and your money.
It’s based on entitlement. “That would never happen to me because I’m a good person”
The problem is that the determination that you are a good person or not, is being made by very bad people. Your characterization of yourself as “good” is irrelevant.
It shouldn’t really be an “entitlement” mindset to think that you shouldn’t go to prison if you didn’t do anything wrong.
It’s completely and utterly anti-american to be forced to have that mindset.
Whoever would cause that mindset is the active enemy of every single citizen.
Trump couldn’t even answer a reporter’s basic questions about the Declaration of Independence. He certainly wouldn’t understand the concept that God himself endowed ALL people with Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - three things that MAGAs despise.
Just minor clarification: being born in Puerto Rico, Bad Bunny is a US citizen and (theoretically) wouldn’t need to fear being deported, but some of his fans might.
But given that ICE is just straight up targeting brown people and holding them indefinitely regardless of legal status or citizenship, it’s still too great a risk to do anything in the US.
He probably also has band and crew members from countries other than PR as well, so he has to worry about them, too. Also, it can’t be easy to coordinate visas for all those people right now. I’ll bet the resistance for a tour like that would be high.
And you are right about being fraudulently detained. He may be a US citizen, but they’ll still hate him for being brown. The Puerto Rican Loophole surely pisses them off. It would be just like the MAGA Nazis to fraudulently detain, and even deport, key personnel, just to fuck up the tour, and cost him millions.
I’ve literally seen border control agents in the airport not know that PR means US Citizen right in front of me. And ICE actively boasts about deporting people to random countries completely unrelated to the person being deported. Reality isn’t going to stop them.
Lots and lots of citizens have been “deported.”
Okay, thank you for mentioning that. I was unaware he was from Puerto Rico.