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Bad Bunny utilized his Grammy acceptance code connected Sunday to denounce U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and telephone for the extremity of the ongoing migration crackdown connected Sunday.
"Before I accidental acknowledgment to God, I'm going to accidental ICE out," the Puerto Rican creator said arsenic helium accepted a Grammy Award for his album "Debí Tirar Más Fotos" in the música urbana medium category. "We're not savage, we're not animals, we're not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans."
His connection was met with applause and lasting ovations. It came arsenic protests against ICE took spot across the state this weekend, including successful Los Angeles, wherever the 68th Annual Grammy Awards were held Sunday. The Grammy Awards were being broadcast unrecorded connected CBS tv stations and streaming on Paramount+.
Bad Bunny accepts the Best Musica Urbana Album grant for "Debí Tirar Más Fotos" onstage during the 68th Grammy Awards astatine Crypto.com Arena connected Feb. 1, 2026, successful Los Angeles, California.
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"Also, I privation to accidental to the people, I cognize it's pugnacious to know, not to hatred connected these days," Bad Bunny said. "And I was thinking, sometimes we get 'contaminado,' I don't cognize however to accidental that successful English. The hatred get much almighty with much hate. The lone happening that's much almighty than hatred is love."
In closing, helium said: "So delight we request to beryllium different. If we fight, we person to bash it with love. We don't hatred them. We emotion our people. We emotion our household and there's a mode to bash it, with love, and don't hide that."
The 31-year-old artist, calved Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, has won 4 Grammys and 12 Latin Grammys. He is acceptable to header the 2026 Apple Music Super Bowl halftime amusement adjacent week.
Bad Bunny has been outspoken astir migration issues, and notably did not docket immoderate U.S. dates connected his satellite circuit to beforehand his astir caller album, telling i-D mag it was done successful part over fearfulness of ICE raids.
Before Bad Bunny's speech, Olivia Dean, who took location the trophy for champion caller artist, said during her acceptance speech: "I'm up present arsenic a granddaughter of an immigrant. I wouldn't beryllium present ... I americium a merchandise of bravery and I deliberation that those radical merit to beryllium celebrated."
Other artists who attended the Grammy Awards connected Sunday, including Billie Eilish and Jack Antonoff, besides wore "ICE OUT" pins successful support.
Eilish besides utilized her acceptance code to say, "No 1 is amerciable connected stolen land," and, "F*** ICE."
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