Donald Trump’s political associates don’t want immigrants to feel safe at the Super Bowl.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement will be in attendance at America’s most-watched annual television event, according to Corey Lewandowski, an adviser at the Department of Homeland Security. ICE confirmed they would be at the Santa Clara, California, event in a statement to TMZ Thursday.

Lewandowski cited Bad Bunny’s recently announced performance at the halftime show as part of the rationale for ICE’s presence, claiming that the Puerto Rican singer “hates America.”

“There is nowhere that you can provide safe haven to people who are in this country illegally, not the Super Bowl and nowhere else,” Lewandowski told conservative podcaster Benny Johnson Wednesday. “We will find you, we will apprehend you, we will put you in a detention facility, and we will deport you.

“That said, the NFL has been so woke for so many years, they finally decided to make a comeback. They finally had people stand up for our great national anthem,” Lewandowski continued, referring to protests that on-field players made nearly a decade ago while protesting police brutality. The NFL officially banned the practice in 2018. “I used to love watching NFL games.… When sports got into wokeness, I stopped doing it.”

“It’s so shameful that they’ve decided to pick somebody who just seems to hate America so much to represent them at the halftime game,” Lewandowski said.

Lewandowski says ICE will be at the Super Bowl for Bad Bunny's halftime show.

Lewandowski: There is nowhere that you can provide safe haven to people who are in this country illegally, not the Super Bowl and nowhere else. We will find you, we will apprehend you. We will put you… pic.twitter.com/U0GXrlidpU

Lewandowski underscored that DHS intends to enforce Trump’s immigration goals at every event, regardless of the performer.

The NFL confirmed Sunday that Bad Bunny, a rapper-singer who has brought Puerto Rican music to radios around the world, would perform during the highly coveted music spot. The announcement came as a surprise to U.S.-based Bad Bunny fans: The three-time Grammy winner told i-D Magazine last month that he would be skipping America on his world tour out of fear of ICE attendance at his performances.

Lewandowski has been tied in to MAGA’s inner fold for years now. He served as Trump’s first campaign manager in the 2016 presidential race.

The Department of Homeland Security has been accused of posting an antisemitic dog-whistle to online trolls—and even if that wasn’t the post’s intention, it was certainly the result.

“‘Communist?” DENIED. ‘Terrorist?’ DENIED. ‘Globalist?’ DENIED,” said the post, which included a photograph of an AI-generated “Chad” in a United States Citizenship and Immigration Services hat, complete with Habsburg-like super chin and exceptionally developed trapezius muscles.

Beneath, the account included a link to sign up to be a so-called “Homeland Defender,” the latest in a pathetic series of ploys to attract deportation fanboys to work for the federal government.

Prominent liberal X user Will Stancil claimed that “globalist” was an intentional reference to Jewish people. “This is a smirkingly antisemitic post about Jews, and everyone involved in its creation knows that, as well as the intended audience,” he wrote.

The term “globalist” historically has been used by the far right to refer to a conspiracy theory that Jews control global events, but has more recently been co-opted by others on the right as an alternative to “nationalist.”

But the original meaning remains, and DHS’s latest post certainly caught the attention of the far right. The official account even engaged with users who responded with memes popularized by “groypers,” the followers of neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes.

“Are you TRYING to recruit me Homeland Security Account? Because you have my attention,” wrote one account, including a meme of Pepe the Frog, which has been added to the Anti-Defamation League’s database of hate symbols.

“You know you want to!” the DHS account replied.

Another user using the screen name “RAW EGG NATIONALIST” responded to the DHS’s post with an image of a man smoking a cigar, receiving a call from the “Based Department,” whose caller ID was an image of Pepe the Frog. The DHS account responded, urging the “Patriot” user to call the ICE tip line.

It has never felt more clear that the DHS Office of Public Affairs is staffed with terminally online right-wing trolls.

The GOP has gone fully mask-off as it brings the hammer of austerity down on Democratic voters as punishment for their senators not capitulating to Trump’s funding bill. 

“This is what they’re doing. They’re doing it deliberately, it’s going to harm [Democrats],” said Republican Senator Mike Lee, referring to Trump and OMB Director (and Project 2025 mastermind) Russell Vought ripping funding away from blue states, holding crucial projects hostage. 

“Because Russ Vought, the OMB director, has been dreaming about this moment—preparing this moment—since puberty,” the Utah senator continued. “Russ Vought has a plan, and that plan is going to succeed in further empowering Trump. This is gonna be the Democrats’ worst nightmare, and it’s of their own making.” 

Lee: This is what they're doing, doing it deliberately. It's going to harm them. Russ Vought has been dreaming about this moment since puberty. pic.twitter.com/CubW81cQy0

While it might not have been his dream since puberty (although Vought is filled with enough spite to make that somewhat believable), this slash-and-burn retribution is absolutely all part of the........

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