Although the teams have yet to be determined for Super Bowl LX, Kristi Noem seems to be betting on ICE against the NFL.
Following the Department of Homeland Security’s warning to those in attendance at Bad Bunny‘s upcoming Super Bowl halftime show, the DHS secretary doubled down on her senior advisor Corey Lewandowski’s threat to the Puerto Rican artist’s fans.
“I have the responsibility to make sure everybody who goes to the Super Bowl has the opportunity to enjoy it and to leave safely,” she said on The Benny Show. “That’s what America’s about. So yeah, we’ll be all over that place.
“We’re going to enforce the law. So, I think people should not be coming to the Super Bowl unless they’re law-abiding Americans who love this country,” added Noem.
Noem also laid into the NFL for choosing Bad Bunny as its halftime performer, despite the largely Spanish-performing artist being a U.S. citizen.
“Well, they suck, and we’ll win,” said Noem of the league. “And God will bless us, and we’ll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day. And they won’t be able to sleep at night because they don’t know what they believe. And they’re so weak, we’ll fix it.”
Lewandowski previously said on the same podcast that they “don’t care” who the performer is. “We’re going to do enforcement everywhere,” he claimed.
“There is nowhere that you can provide safe haven to people in this country illegally. Not the Super Bowl and nowhere else,” added Lewandowski. “We will find you. We will apprehend you. We will put you in a detention facility, and we will deport you. So know that that is a very real situation under this administration, which is completely contrary to what how it used to be.”
Bad Bunny previously explained that he opted not to include any U.S. stops on his Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour as he and his team were “very concerned” about his fans being subjected to threats of deportation.
“There were many reasons why I didn’t show up in the U.S., and none of them were out of hate—I’ve performed there many times. All of [the shows] have been successful. All of them have been magnificent. I’ve enjoyed connecting with Latinos who have been living in the U.S.,” he explained to i-D, adding: “There was the issue of—like, fucking ICE could be outside [my concert]. And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about.”
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