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Karol G says she was warned not to speak out against ICE during her Coachella headlining set, for fear of having her visa revoked. “People will say, ‘It’s better you don’t,’” she told Playboy. “Why? Because if you say the thing, maybe the next day you’ll get a call: ‘Hey, we are taking your visa away.’ You become bait, because some people want to show their power.” She also wants to make sure that when she does speak out on a platform as big as Coachella, she wants to make sure that her message is meaningful to the immigrant community, a message they can resonate with. She added, “I don’t want to just say ‘ICE Out’ and have nothing come from it… I’m probably going to go a little harder than that. I just want to represent my community. But what I’m telling you is that, as a human being, I want that to mean more.”
Karol G references the ICE OUT pin campaign, in which celebrities wore pins during awards season to honor ICE victims and promote resources for those affected by ICE raids. But because she’s the first Latina to headline Coachella, she wants to make sure her message doesn’t get lost, and she speaks loud and clear: “I’m not saying that I’m not going to do it; what I’m saying is that I would do it and will do it with my soul. But I want to sit down and understand, in my head: Here’s what that meant.”
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