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Bruce Springsteen dedicates his new song to the residents of Minneapolis, criticizing US President Donald Trump’s current immigration enforcement operations in the city.
The words of The streets of Minneapolisreleased Wednesday, describes how “a city on fire fought fire and ice “under the boots of an occupier,” whom Springsteen calls “King Trump’s private army.”
In a statement, Springsteen said he wrote and recorded the song over the weekend and released it in response to a second deadly shooting by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis.
“It is dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and to the memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good,” he wrote, naming the two victims.
White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson responded: “The Trump administration is working to encourage state and local Democrats to work with federal law enforcement agents to remove dangerous criminal illegal aliens from their communities – not random songs with irrelevant opinions and inaccurate information. »
The slow-burning song expands from simple acoustic guitar and vocals to a fuller group melody, including a harmonica solo, and ends with chants of “ICE Out!”
“Oh our Minneapolis, I hear your voice,” Springsteen sings. “Singing through the bloody mist/We will stand for this land/And the stranger among us.”
The title echoes that of Springsteen Streets of Philadelphiawhich served as the title song for the 1993 film directed by Tom Hanks Philadelphia.
Springsteen has long criticized the president, who in turn called the rock icon “overrated.”
They last publicly clashed last year, when Springsteen was touring England and told his audience that America “is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treacherous administration.”
Trump responded by calling Springsteen a “dried up prune of a rocker.”
