This is really something. It took a lot of work, and it seems it was done very quickly. It’s beautiful. We can guess that people paid attention since it was before the game, and did not interrupt anything. But it also took courage because of those same game fans. We all know about football fans. Thanks to Raw Story:
An artists’ collective led an “ICE Out” protest inside Levi’s Stadium on Sunday during Super Bowl LX. The protest, called “Flags in the Stands,” was led by California-based advocacy group Contra-ICE. Organizers said it was directed at the “inhumane treatment” of immigrants and other people swept up in President Donald Trump’s deportation regime. The group distributed custom towels around the stadium as fans filed in, which featured a nod to the 2026 halftime performer, Bad Bunny, and the slogan “ICE Out.”
We wish we had been there and been supportive. They should sell the towels online because they would make a bunch of money for lawyer expenses for people grabbed off the street by the hooligans. Our family would certainly get them, well, the two of us. I’m not sure that anyone else in the family would. Too bad for them. One would go on the back deck of the car. No screaming, no mistakes, just a quiet statement. We would have to be cautious, though, because we are in the Deep South.
“In moments like this, we can show empathy, stand together, and remind people that no matter what is happening politically, we still have the power to dream, create, and speak out against injustice,” Dali Colorado, founder of Contra-ICE said in a statement.
Lead organizer Shasti Conrad added that the protest was designed to “build on the momentum” created by Bad Bunny and other celebrities during the recent Grammys, where many attendees repeated the phrase “ICE Out” in protest of the Trump administration.
Could we, because of ICE, Trump, Noem, Bondi, Miller, and, well, all of them, have found something that will unify the country? Is this something that will even bring some MAGA supporters over? In a manner of speaking, we’ve been searching for something to give us the final step to a goal. We have a NO KINGS coming up in March. They got us started, and they need to keep going. But that’s not all.
“Culture often leads politics, and moments like this show how people are using joy, creativity, and visibility to push back against ICE and demand a country that truly lives up to its promise to welcome immigrants,” Conrad said.
The protest was organized at a time when Trump’s immigration forces are facing increased scrutiny. During a recent surge in Minneapolis, Trump’s forces shot and killed two American citizens. The deaths sparked protests and bipartisan calls for DHS Secretary Kristi Noem and Stephen Miller, the White House deputy chief of staff, to be fired or removed from office.
There’s also a theory that Miller put together the racist Obama piece, which would surprise none of us, plus it seems far too much like something he would enjoy doing. There are no strong enough words to describe the vileness of that man. We know he’s behind the quota demand. But ICE is drowning in alligators and *everyone* is against them. It should worry them, but won’t, because they are thugs with no brains. They’re hated no matter what the location. And so, Contra-ICE, NO KINGS, and protests continue apace. We’ll get there, and one way or another, We the People will win.
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Nearly 51 years ago, Neil Sedaka co-wrote a song with Phil Cody called “The Immigrant” and released it as a single, dedicating the song to John Lennon due to his immigration problems (largely at the behest of Richard Nixon who feared that Lennon could cost him re-election in 1972). Those problems, incidentally, would be resolved about 5 or 6 after “The Immigrant” was released.
Sedaka and Cody both had personal investment with the song as Sedaka’s paternal grandparents had immigrated from the Ottoman Empire and his mother’s family had immigrated from Russian Poland while Cody’s father had immigrated from Sicily.
The lyrics are quite poignant and definitely deserve to be pounded into the heads of Drumpf and Stephen “Nosferatu” Miller and every single one of the thugs cosplaying in ICE.
Maybe once we get Drumpf behind bars (where he belongs) we can play the song non-stop as part of his punishment.
Harbors opened their arms to the young searching foreigner
Come to live in the light of the beacon of liberty
Planes and open skies, billboards would advertise
Was it anything like that when you arrived
Dreamboats carry the future to the heart of America
People were waiting in line for a place by the river
It was a time when strangers were welcome here
Music would play, they tell me the days were sweet and clear
It was a sweeter tune and there was so much room that people could come from everywhere
Now he arrives with his hopes and his heart set on miracles
Come to marry his fortune with a hand full of promises
To find they’ve closed the door, they don’t want him anymore
Isn’t anymore to go around
Turning away he remembers he once heard
A legend that spoke of a mystical magical land called America
There was a time when strangers were welcome here
Music would play, they tell me the days were sweet and clear
It was a sweeter tune and there was so much room that people could come from everywhere
There was a time when strangers were welcome here
Music would play, they tell me the days were sweet and clear
There was a time when strangers were welcome here
Music would play, they tell me the days were sweet and clear
I remember that song. To me, it’s similar to Neil Diamond’s song America. Love both of those songs.