‘Gestapo tactics’: Bruce Springsteen condemns Trump team’s ICE crackdown
New Jersey musician said during concert in home state that US core values ‘have never been as endangered’ as nowBruce Springsteen used a Saturday concert to decry what he called the “Gestapo tactics” of the Trump administration’s surge of immigration officers and said the country’s...
<p>New Jersey musician said during concert in home state that US core values ‘have never been as endangered’ as now</p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/music/springsteen">Bruce Springsteen</a> used a Saturday concert to decry what he called the “Gestapo tactics” of the <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/trump-administration">Trump administration</a>’s surge of immigration officers and said the country’s founding values “have never been as endangered as they are right now”.</p><p>While performing in his home state of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/new-jersey">New Jersey</a>, Springsteen <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxgptIM74Wk">dedicated</a> his 1978 song The Promised Land to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/08/minnesota-ice-shooting-nicole-macklin-good">Renee Good</a>, the 37-year-old woman who was shot and <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/08/minneapolis-ice-agent-shooting-killing">killed</a> by an ICE officer in Minnesota.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jan/19/bruce-springsteen-trump-ice-concert">Continue reading...</a>
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