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Kristi Noem, the US Minister of Internal Security, confirmed what US President Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski had already said at the beginning of the week. Officials from the US immigration and customs authority (ICE) will be in use at the Super Bowl on February 8th. At the event, the Puerto-Rican superstar Bad Bunny performs on the half-time show.
In a recent video of the program “The Benny Show” Noem told the right podcaster Benny Johnson that ICE would “be everywhere” at the Super Bowl 2026.
“I am responsible for the fact that everyone who comes to the Super Bowl has the opportunity to enjoy and go back – this is America,” said Noem in the clip. “So yes, we will be there everywhere. We will enforce the law.”
Noem: “Only Americans’ lawyers should come”
Noem continued: “So I think that nobody should come to the Super Bowl, except for law -like Americans who love this country.”
When she was asked whether she had a message to the NFL, which Bad Bunny had named as a half-time show headliner, Noem replied: “Well, they are terrible and we will win. And God will bless us, and at the end of the day we will be proud of ourselves while they cannot sleep at night because they do not know what they believe in.”
Lewandowski also spoke to Johnson earlier a week. When asked whether ICE will be present in the big game, he said: “There is no place where people who are illegally in this country can offer refuge. Not at the Super Bowl and nowhere else,” said Lewandowski. “We will find you, we will arrest you, we will take you to an internment camp and we will deport you.”
Trump supporter outraged by Bad Bunny
Other supporters of the President also reacted outraged when it became known that the Puerto-Rican superstar will lead the half-time show at the Super Bowl.
Before Bad Bunny was unveiled as the star of the half-time show in 2026, the musician in the magazine “ID” explained why his upcoming “Debí Tirar Más Photos” world tour does not contain any appointments in the continental USA. The artist said that the recent mass deportations of the Trump government, which were aimed specifically against Latinos, had influenced this decision.
“There were many reasons why I didn’t appear in the USA and none of them were hate – I often played there,” said Bad Bunny. “All of my shows were successful. Everyone was great.”
The singer, a loud critic of Trump’s politics, added: “But there was this problem – damn ICE could stand outside in front of my concert. And that was something we talked about and really worried.”
Bad Bunny moderates the opening sequence of the 51st “Saturday Night Live” relay tonight, Doja Cat is a musical guest.