Noem reacts to Bad Bunny, Billie Eilish bashing ICE at Grammys: ‘Ill-informed’

Secretary of Homeland Safety Kristi Noem spoke out after Dangerous Bunny, Billie Eilish and different celebrities focused U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on the Grammy Awards, telling Fox Information Digital that their criticism is “ill-informed.”

“I want they knew what nice, nice individuals our ICE officers are. Many of those officers stay in these communities the place they conduct enforcement actions,” Noem instructed Fox Information Digital on Monday throughout an interview at a Mississippi Nationwide Guard facility in Tupelo. The Secretary was visiting with the Governor, Federal Emergency Administration Company (FEMA) officers and navy members within the aftermath of Winter Storm Fern.

“Their households stay there and they’re their neighbors who they defend by taking harmful criminals off the streets. They go after the murderers and rapists, individuals who visitors medication and defend America,” Noem continued.

“That is what President Trump mentioned he would do, he mentioned he would make us safer, and he has executed that. We now have reached an all-time low within the crime charge on this nation, the bottom variety of murders and crimes in over 100 years of recording this,” Noem additionally instructed Fox Information Digital. “So these are actual outcomes, individuals really feel it of their communities, and it is a disgrace that ill-informed well-known musicians make such statements with out actually realizing what nice People our ICE and Border Patrol brokers Are.”

MUSIC’S BIGGEST STARS PROTEST ICE AT GRAMMY AWARDS

Dangerous Bunny and Billie Eilish on the Grammy Awards on Sunday, February 1, 2026, and Secretary of Homeland Safety Kristi Noem. (Kevin Winter/Getty Pictures for The Recording Academy; Alex Brandon/Getty Pictures)

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Pop star Billie Eilish was among the many celebrities who used the stage on the Grammy Awards on Sunday to criticize the Trump administration and ICE.

“Nobody is against the law on stolen land,” Eilish mentioned as he accepted the Grammy for Music of the 12 months. “I really feel very hopeful on this room, and I really feel like we should always preserve it that manner combating, talking out and protesting. Our voices actually matter, and the individuals actually matter.”

“And f… ICE, that is all I’ll say, sorry,” she added.

HUNDREDS OF ANTI-ICE PROTESTERS CLOSED PORTLAND’S STREETS

Dangerous Bunny accepts the Album of the 12 months award for “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” on the 68th Annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Picture/Chris Pizzello)

Carrying an “ICE OUT” pin, Eilish additionally emphasised the urgency of continued activism throughout her remarks.

Puerto Rican singer Dangerous Bunny additionally took direct goal at ICE throughout his Grammy acceptance speech, utilizing the second to denounce the group and defend the humanity of immigrants.

SZA and Billie Eilish with Grammy Awards. Each artists criticized ICE on Sunday. (Allen J. Schaben/Los Angeles Occasions by way of Getty Pictures; Julian Hamilton/WireImage)

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“ICE out,” mentioned Dangerous Bunny as he accepted the Grammy for finest Música Urbana album. “We aren’t savage, we’re not animals, we’re not aliens – we’re human beings and we’re People.”

Fox Information Digital’s Nora Moriarty contributed to this report.