Former ESPN host sage steele She mocked musicians who criticized Immigration and Customs Enforcement at the Grammys because, she said, they were too ignorant to have an opinion.
Several prominent musicians blasted ICE and the Border Patrol on Sunday amid ongoing, sometimes violent, raids. Last month, agents shot and killed two U.S. citizens in separate incidents in Minneapolis, where the Trump administration has deployed about 3,000 immigration agents who have detained children and arrested asylum seekers. ICE officials told its agents they did not need a judicial warrant to enter people’s homes, according to an internal memo.
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Several musicians spoke out against ICE at Sunday night’s Grammy Awards. Bad Bunny, who will perform at the Super Bowl halftime show, said while accepting Urbana’s award for best musical album: “Before I say thank you to God, I have to say: ICE get out of here!”
Kelani“F*ck ICE,” he told the Grammys audience, who won Best R&B Performance.
on Monday Jesse Waters Primetime Former SportsCenter host Steele dismissed anti-ICE sentiment on Fox News.
“I only watched about 15 minutes, but it was enough to really set the tone for what I knew the end result would be,” she said. “I gotta tell you, none of us should be surprised right now, but it’s still disappointing.”
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Steele went on to quote the Fox News host Laura Ingrahamwho tore in 2018 LeBron James criticize the president Donald Trump.
“Don’t make political statements,” Ingraham said at the time. “Shut up and dribble.”
“I would liken it to something the great Laura Ingraham said a few years ago,” Steele said. “‘Shut up and dribble.’ It’s not because we don’t want to hear athletes’ side of things. Maybe here or there, but it’s because we’ve learned that they don’t tend to be fact-based. They’re basing it on TikTok news or left-wing media narratives, not facts. If you go with the facts and give me your opinion from there, that’s fine. That’s exactly what the Hollywood elite have chosen not to do, and the performance from all of us on stage yesterday was incredible, but not surprising.”
Steele later added, “That’s why, shut up and dribble, shut up and sing, because you’re extremely talented, but you don’t know what you’re talking about.”
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A Fox News poll released last week showed that 59% of American voters believe ICE’s tactics are “too aggressive.” Meanwhile, a majority of Americans (46%) want to abolish the agency, according to a YouGov survey last month.
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