Miguel delivered a politically-charged message directed at the Trump administration during his Radio City Music Hall concert in New York City on Tuesday night (Feb. 24).
The Los Angeles native’s Caos Tour stage includes a flipped-over, totaled vehicle with “ICE Out” spray-painted across one of the doors. “Yeah, there’s nothing more important than holding each other down in these crazy [expletive] times,” he said, according to USA Today. “In solidarity with the people, man.”
He continued to fire up the Big Apple crowd by leading an ICE out chant during the show. “Let’s see if we can’t get ICE out. ICE out! ICE out,” Miguel repeated.
Miguel later voiced his frustrations with the world and the current political climate in America. “Trying to stay focused and be better than I was yesterday,” he added. “Hell yeah, I’m mad, aren’t you mad?”
The “Adorn” hitmaker’s proclamation came amid President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address in Washington, D.C., which also took place on Tuesday night.
It’s not the first time Miguel has been outspoken about Trump. “I’m not a politician. I don’t pretend to be, I’m not a scholar in this way, but I know that we are born with a sense of what is right and wrong,” he told USA Today of Trump’s time in office. “And I would wager my career on the fact that most people are looking at what’s happening and feel like something is not right.”
The singer will bring the Caos Tour to the Midwest with stops in Detroit, Cincinnati and Chicago to close out February.
Donald Trump’s deployment of ICE agents across America has been a controversial topic of discussion, and tensions were raised when Minnesotans Renée Good and Alex Pretti were shot and killed by ICE agents in separate altercations in Minneapolis last month.
Trump had claimed that ICE officers were acting in self-defense in both instances, but video footage of the incidents doesn’t appear to confirm that assertion.
There have been a plethora of music stars to speak out against ICE, including Billie Eilish, Bad Bunny, Olivia Rodrigo, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga and Kehlani.