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How serious is talk about ICE patrolling the Super Bowl over Bad Bunny?

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I know more about Bugs Bunny than I will ever know about Bad Bunny. But here’s what I do know: Bad Bunny is a wildly popular rapper from Puerto Rico. He’s no fan of Donald Trump — surprise, surprise — and he’ll be headlining the Super Bowl halftime show next February in Santa Clara, Calif.

Bunny tends to attract a big Latin crowd. So Kristi Noem, who heads up Homeland Security, has come up with what she seems to think is a brilliant idea. She says she’s going to send Immigration and Custom Enforcement agents to the Super Bowl to look for and arrest (presumably Latino-looking) people who might be in the U.S. illegally.

Sound insane? That’s because it is.

Noem was a guest on conservative podcaster Benny Johnson’s show and he asked her point-blank whether there would be “ICE enforcement” at the Super Bowl. Without missing a beat, Noem said, “There will be.” ICE agents, she assured us, would be “all over” the event.

And then came the kicker. “People should not attend the game,” she warned, unless they are........

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