Lady Gaga is speaking out against the monstrous events in Minneapolis.
The Oscar-winning singer-actress took a break during her Tokyo concert to spend a few minutes condemning ICE following the controversial deaths of two protesters at the hands of the immigration enforcement agents.
In a lengthy and impassioned statement at the Tokyo Dome (watch the video below), Gaga said, “I want to take a second to talk about something that’s extremely important to me. Something important to people all over the world and especially in America right now. In a couple of days, I’m gonna be heading home, and my heart is aching thinking about the people — the children, the families, all over America — who are being mercilessly targeted by ICE.”
Continued Gaga: “I’m thinking about all of their pain and how their lives are being destroyed right in front of us. I’m also thinking about Minnesota and everyone back at home who is living in so much fear and searching for answers on what we all should do. When entire communities lose their sense of safety and belonging, it breaks something in all of us.”
“I hope that you’ll all stand with us tonight,” she continued “I know we’re not in America right now, but we are with our community and we love you. I’d like to dedicate this song to everyone who is suffering, to everyone who’s feeling alone and helpless, anyone who’s lost a loved one and is it having a difficult time, an impossible time, seeing when the end will be near. We need to get back to a place of safety and peace and accountability. Good people shouldn’t have to fight so hard and risk their lives for well-being and respect. I hope our leaders are listening. I hope you’re listening to us ask you to change your course of action swiftly and have mercy on everyone in our country. At a time where it doesn’t feel like it’s easy to have hope, it is my community and my friends, my family that hold me up. So, I would like to sing a song that does have some hope in it, to try to give us a little bit tonight.”
Gaga then launched into a performance of “Come to Mama” from her album Joanne.
The message comes amid Trump administration border czar Tom Homan saying during a Thursday morning press conference that the agency’s strategy is shifting. In a new directive, agents are being instructed not to “communicate or engage with agitators,” noting “it serves no purpose other than inflaming the situation.” Homan said that moving forward, ICE would focus on immigrants who have criminal charges or convictions — which is what Trump originally pledged during his campaign — rather than the far more general round-up efforts which have drawn widespread commendation from Democrats as well as many Republicans.
Recently, celebrities such as Edward Norton, Olivia Wilde, Zoey Deutch and Natalie Portman have come out against ICE, and Bruce Springsteen released a protest song about the deaths in Minneapolis.
Lady Gaga is nominated for seven Grammy Awards — which are being telecast Sunday night — including a nomination for album of the year for MAYHEM and song of the year for “Abracadabra.”
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