“Fuck ICE. No one is illegal on stolen land”.

With these words, Billie Eilish opened fire upon receiving the Grammy for Song of the Year for “Wildflower” at the 68th Annual Grammy Awards, held last night at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, catalyzing an avalanche of denunciations against the Trump administration’s immigration policies, which have escalated into lethal violence.

ICE, the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, now operates as a paramilitary force at Trump’s service, acting on the edge of legality or directly violating it: it uses administrative warrants without judges for raids, detains U.S. citizens based on racial profiling, employs mass surveillance without judicial warrants against protesters, and commits extrajudicial executions such as those of Renee Nicole Macklin Good and Alex Jeffrey Pretti in Minneapolis, violating human, civil, and constitutional rights (Fourth and First Amendments) with impunity, turned into private thugs who evade judicial accountability.

In Minneapolis, the epicenter of the protests, ICE agents killed Renee Nicole Macklin Good on January 7 and Alex Jeffrey Pretti, an intensive care nurse, on January 24, while they were observing raids. These incidents, backed by videos that contradict official claims of self-defense, have unleashed massive demonstrations with dozens injured and killed, the worst crisis of governability and democracy since the civil rights struggles of the 1960s, with cities in chaos and calls to abolish ICE.

Artists directly linked their awards to these deaths, wearing “ICE OUT” pins and dedicating their victories to the victims and immigrants.

Billie Eilish, alongside Finneas and Carole King, reiterated: “Fuck ICE. No one is illegal on stolen land. We have to keep fighting, speaking out, protesting. Our voices matter and people matter” (Fuck ICE. No one is illegal on stolen land. We have to keep fighting, speaking out, protesting. Our voices matter and people matter).

Bad Bunny, the first Latin artist to win Album of the Year for “Debí Tirar Más Fotos”, proclaimed: “ICE OUT! We are not savages, we are not animals, we are not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans” (ICE out! We are not savages, we are not animals, we are not aliens. We are humans and we are Americans).

Shaboozey dedicated his Grammy for Best Country Duo/Group (“Amen”): “To all the children of immigrants. You brought vitality to America”.

Joni Mitchell, 82, wore the “ICE OUT” pin when winning the statuette for Best Historical Album.

Others such as Olivia Dean, Kehlani — who shouted “Fuck ICE! Fuck Trump!” in support of observers in Minneapolis — Justin Bieber, Bon Iver, and Gloria Estefan amplified the message with whistles and gestures of solidarity.

From the Grammy stage to the bloodstained streets of Minneapolis and other states, these voices expose a regime that prioritizes deportation over human life, breaking the rule of law in the name of xenophobia, supremacism, and hatred.