At a time in history where it feels hard to celebrate July 4th, Bad Bunny honors the Puerto Rican diaspora and delivers a poignant pro-immigrant message in his new music video for “Nuevayol,”
Toward the latter part of the film, a voice that sounds like Donald Trump‘s bellows out of a Seventies radio and says the following: “I made a mistake. I want to apologize to the immigrants in America. I mean the United States. I know America is the whole continent. I want to say that this country is nothing without the immigrants. This country is nothing without Mexicans, Dominicans, Puerto Ricans, Colombians, Venezuelans, Cubans.”
At a time when immigrants throughout the United States are being forcefully targeted and deported by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), on Thursday (7.03,) Congress passed Trump’s so-called “Big Beautiful Bill” which will supercharge ICE’s power with 10,000 new ICE agents and 100,000 new detention beds. Dubbed “Aligator Alcatraz,” the Trump administration unveiled a new immigrant detention facility in Florida.
Not the first time the Latin superstar singer/songwriter has denounced ICE. in June, the musician (born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio) shared a video of what seemed to be ICE officers detaining a group of people in the streets. “Those motherfuckers are in these cars, RAV-4s,” narrated Bad Bunny in Spanish over footage of law enforcement appearing to take immigrants into unmarked cars on Avenida Pontezuela in Carolina, Puerto Rico. “They came here… Sons of bitches, instead of letting the people alone and working.”
The “Nuevayol” music video isn’t the Hispanic celebrity’s first go at Trump as in the middle of the 2024 presidential election, the artist shared a powerful video in support of his homeland following comedian Tony Hinchliffe calling the territory “garbage” at a Trump rally.
Earlier this year, the Latin superstar released an album celebrating a range of Caribbean genres, Debí Tirar Más Fotos and in an interview with Rolling Stone, he detailed his fearless approach when it comes to tackling politics in his music, stating “People are used to artists getting big and mainstream and not expressing themselves about these things, or if they do, talking about it in a super careful way,” he said. “But I’m going to talk, and whoever doesn’t like it doesn’t have to listen to me.”
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Author: Saul Goode
Photo: Gage Skidmore