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.
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.