Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem says ICE will be “all over” the 2026 Super Bowl.
Amid news of Bad Bunny being named the headliner for the upcoming Super Bowl Halftime Show, Trump adviser Corey Lewandowski said on Wednesday ICE would be in attendance during the big game. Now, in a recent video on Benny Johnson’s YouTube channel, Noem weighed in on the conversation, further confirming that agents will at the Super Bowl, where Bad Bunny will perform.
“I have the responsibility for making sure everybody who goes to the Super Bowl has the opportunity to enjoy it and to leave, and that’s what America’s about,” she said. “So yeah, we’ll be all over that place. We’re going to enforce the law.”
Noem added, “So, I think people should not be coming to the Super Bowl unless they’re law-abiding Americans who love this country.”
Bad Bunny told i-D Magazine earlier this year that he did not include any U.S. stops on his Debí Tirar Más Fotos World Tour due concerns about ICE showing up to his concerts.
“There were many reasons why I didn’t show up in the U.S., and none of them were out of hate — I’ve performed there many times. All of [the shows] have been successful,” he said. “But there was the issue of — like, fucking ICE could be outside [my concert]. And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about.”
When asked if she had “any message to the NFL” amid Bad Bunny being named the Super Bowl’s headlining act, Noem replied, “Well, they suck and we’ll win, and God will bless us and we’ll stand and be proud of ourselves at the end of the day, and they won’t be able to sleep at night because they don’t know what they believe. And they’re so weak, we’ll fix it.”
Amid the news of his headlining Super Bowl gig, Bad Bunny will host the season 51 premiere of Saturday Night Live on Saturday.
