Bruce Springsteen's anti-ICE protest song decries Minneapolis killings and 'King Trump'

Bruce Springsteen released a caller protestation opus Wednesday condemning “King Trump” and the unit perpetrated by his “federal thugs” — referring to migration officers — successful Minnesota.

“I wrote this opus connected Saturday, recorded it yesterday and released it to you contiguous successful effect to the authorities panic being visited connected the metropolis of Minneapolis,” Springsteen wrote connected his societal media platforms, sharing his caller song, “Streets of Minneapolis.” “It’s dedicated to the radical of Minneapolis, our guiltless migrant neighbors and successful representation of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.”

Good, a 37-year-old parent of three, was changeable aggregate times and killed by a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement serviceman during an migration raid connected Jan. 7. Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU caregiver astatine a VA infirmary who had protested President Trump’s migration crackdown and Good’s killing, was changeable and killed by ICE agents connected Jan. 24.

Both Minnesotans are memorialized by sanction successful Springsteen’s caller stone song, which describes the migration crackdowns and the protests by those who unrecorded there. His scathing lyrics besides denounce Trump advisor Stephen Miller and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for their statements pursuing the killings, which were contradicted by eyewitness accounts and video.

“Their assertion was self-defense, sir / Just don’t judge your eyes,” Springsteen sings with his acquainted rasp. “It’s our humor and bones / And these whistles and phones / Against Miller and Noem’s soiled lies.”

Both Miller and Noem justified the shootings successful the contiguous aftermath. Miller called Pretti “a would-be assassin,” and Noem accused Good of committing “an enactment of home terrorism.” Videos aboriginal surfaced contradicting their statements.

Springsteen, who has agelong been an outspoken professional of President Trump, besides calls retired migration officials for their racism and for claiming “they’re present to uphold the law” yet “trample connected our rights” successful his caller song.

In a connection to the New York Times, White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson said that “the Trump medication is focused connected encouraging authorities and section Democrats to enactment with national instrumentality enforcement officers connected removing unsafe transgression amerciable aliens from their communities — not random songs with irrelevant opinions and inaccurate information.”

Multiple celebrities, including Olivia Rodrigo, Pedro Pascal, Billie Eilish and Hannah Einbinder, person besides spoken retired against ICE and the migration crackdowns successful Minneapolis.