Billie Eilish is using her platform to amplify protests against the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement, which has come under fire (even more than usual) for the killing of a Minnesota woman earlier this week.
On Friday (Jan. 9) — two days after 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good was fatally shot by an ICE officer during an immigration enforcement operation in Minneapolis — the pop star shared several back-to-back posts condemning the organization. The first one was a graphic calling ICE a “federally funded and supported terrorist group,” with the original creator describing the agency’s actions as “tearing apart families, terrorizing citizens, and now murdering innocent people.”
The second post Eilish reshared on her Story calls on the country to “abolish ICE,” listing 32 people who reportedly died in ICE custody last year. The third encourages U.S. citizens to call their representatives in Congress to demand that ICE be defunded, and for the officer who fired the deadly shot in Minneapolis to be arrested and charged immediately.
Billboard has reached out to the White House and the Department of Homeland Security for comment.
ICE’s actions under the Donald Trump administration have been polarizing since he took office a year ago, but backlash has reached an all-time high this week following the scene in Minneapolis. The DHS, the president and Vice President JD Vance have all claimed that Good was trying to run over the agents with her car leading up to the shooting, and that the officer in question was acting in self defense; however, widely circulated video footage of the incident shows that Good had actually been driving the opposite way.
Even Trump struggled to explain what happened after he personally watched the video of the shooting in the Oval Office with a New York Times reporter also in the room. “Well … I … the way I look at it … it’s a terrible scene,” the newspaper reports of the twice-impeached POTUS’ reaction to the footage. “I think it’s horrible to watch. No, I hate to see it.”
Eilish has long been vocal in her opposition to Trump’s policies, endorsing his opponent, Kamala Harris, in the 2024 election. Prior to Friday, the nine-time Grammy winner had also shared other posts condemning the ICE raids in her home city of Los Angeles.
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