“LA merely would not exist with out immigrants”
Olivia Rodrigo has shared an announcement on the continued deportation disaster within the USA.
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The previous NME cowl star‘s feedback come amid ongoing protests in opposition to ICE’s raids of a number of workplaces in Los Angeles over alleged immigration violations.
In response to the protests, President Donald Trump authorised the deployment of the Nationwide Guard – which was allowed to hold out anti-protest operations over the next 60 days.
Rodrigo took to her Instagram story yesterday (June 14) to share an announcement on the disaster, writing: “I’ve lived in LA my entire life, and I’m deeply upset about these violent deportations of my neighbors below the present administration.
“LA merely wouldn’t exist with out immigrants,” she continued. “Treating hardworking neighborhood members with such little respect, empathy, and due course of is terrible. I stand with the gorgeous, various neighborhood of Los Angeles and with immigrants all throughout America. I stand for our proper to freedom of speech and freedom to protest.”
olivia talking out in opposition to ICE, and going to a peaceable protest really means the world to me pic.twitter.com/387cBy7vgo
— riley! ☆ #teamdenali (@stupidbigteeths) June 15, 2025
Shortly afterwards, she shared a photograph of a crowd of protestors carrying indicators that learn “NO KINGS in our USA,” referencing the ‘No Kings’ protest motion that highlights that America shouldn’t be a monarchy, and Trump shouldn’t be a king.
Rodrigo is amongst many musicians talking out in opposition to ICE. Final weekend, Finneas claimed he had been tear-gassed by the Nationwide Guard at a “peaceable” protest in LA. “Fuck ICE,” he wrote on social media concerning the incident. Later, he added: “In case you are into this fascist shit you might be small and weak and can lose.”
Rage In opposition to The Machine’s Tom Morello has attended a protest in opposition to ICE too, calling on folks to “defend LA”. Elsewhere, Inexperienced Day frontman Billie Joe Armstrong expressed his help by telling ICE to “fuck off”.
Elsewhere, Shakira mentioned that she lives in “fixed concern” as an immigrant in the USA.
Khaby Lame, the world’s greatest TikTok star, additionally reportedly fled the US after being detained by ICE earlier this week.
In different information, later this month Rodrigo is ready to carry out an enormous headline present at Hyde Park’s London sequence, along with her June 27 gig marking her greatest UK present to this point. Though tickets for the BST Hyde Park live performance are sold-out, if any extra last-minute tickets change into obtainable, you will discover them here.
It isn’t the one large UK efficiency Rodrigo has lined up for this summer time both, as she will even be becoming a member of Neil Younger and The 1975 in headlining Glastonbury 2025.
The slot on the Pyramid Stage will mark her second look on the Worthy Farm pageant, following on from her efficiency to a mammoth crowd to The Different Stage in 2022.