As protests erupt throughout the nation in opposition to the Trump administration’s raids and mass arrests of migrants by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), música Mexicana singer Ivan Cornejo confirmed his assist for his neighborhood by serving to elevate funds for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA).
“In 1986, my dad was one of many 3 million undocumented immigrants to obtain amnesty from Ronald Reagan, permitting him to have authorized standing within the U.S. President Reagan and different former presidents have acknowledged the worth that immigrants carry to this nation,” started Cornejo in his assertion posted to social media on Tuesday. “Now we have and proceed to contribute not solely economically however culturally and have been doing so ceaselessly.”
“America was constructed on the backs of immigrants like my father, and now we’re being focused, undermining America’s core values,” continued the singer-songwriter. “Phrases can not specific the sorrow that I really feel for my neighborhood. I see my mother, my dad and myself in a lot of you.”
Cornejo mentioned he was “speechless on the inhumanity that has effects on our Mexican and Hispanic communities.” He added that there have been “closed-door discussions” over whether or not talking out has put this workforce in danger,” as a result of “this administration will not be holding again” and “indiscriminately utilizing measures by no means seen earlier than.”
The artist mentioned that for the reason that launch of his Mirada Tour Parte 2, his workforce and followers have raised funds for CHIRLA, and linked to its web site “the place you’ll be able to study your rights and how one can become involved.”
“I’m with you throughout these tough occasions, and I’ll proceed to assist you all by means of my artwork,” mentioned the singer.
A number of artists together with Inexperienced Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Tyler, the Creator, and extra have spoken out in opposition to President Donald Trump’s ICE raids and deployment of two,000 Nationwide Guard troops to Los Angeles over the weekend. Whereas accepting the BET Award for Greatest Feminine Hip-Hop Artist, Doechii addressed the anti-ICE protests in Los Angeles, the place the Awards had been being held. “I really feel it’s my duty as an artist to make use of this second to talk up for all oppressed folks, for Black folks, for Latino folks, for trans folks, for the folks in Gaza,” she mentioned on stage that evening. “All of us should dwell in hope and never in worry. And I hope we stand collectively, my brothers and my sisters, in opposition to hate — and we protest in opposition to it.”
Finneas mentioned that he was tear-gassed whereas at a “peaceable protest” in downtown L.A. on Sunday. “Tear-gassed nearly instantly on the very peaceable protest downtown — they’re inciting this,” he wrote in a put up included in a collection from his Instagram tales. In a single from earlier within the day, Finneas wrote, “Fuck ICE.”
The protests spreading all through the nation are pushing again in opposition to the inhumane techniques the federal authorities has carried out to focus on immigrant communities. In current weeks, ICE brokers have shocked migrants at immigration hearings, taken infants out of their moms arms whereas conducting an arrest, and begun finishing up massive scale spherical ups that — by the admission of Trump’s “immigration czar” Tom Homan — arrest migrants with none prison information.