Bad Bunny does not want to perform in the USA – worry about deportation

Singer Bad Bunny does not play a concerts in the US festival country out of concern in front of the US immigration authority ICE on his world tour. The 31-year-old told the “ID” magazine in an interview. The Puerto Ricaner has been performing a total of 30 stadium shows in the capital San Juan since July and mid-September and will start on world tour in December.

In the interview, the singer (“DTMF”, “Baile Inolvidable”) was asked whether the lack of concerts in the US festival country with the numerous deportations of Latinos from the USA. “To be honest,” said the Grammy winner. “There were several reasons why I don’t appear in the USA, but none of them were out of hatred,” said Bad Bunny (born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio).

He enjoys getting together with Latinos who lived in the United States. “But especially here in Puerto Rico, where we are an outside area of ​​the USA … People from the USA should come here to see the show.” You could travel to the whole world. “But there was the problem that the damn ICE could stand before my concert. And that was something we talked about and that very worried us.”

The ICE immigration authority is increasingly in California, but also in other US states, against immigrants who are without papers in the USA (Read a on-site report here). President Donald Trump had promised in the election campaign to start the largest deportation program in American history.