Olivia Rodrigo is including her voice to the rising outcry over federal immigration raids in Southern California.
The 22-year-old pop star and actress, who grew up in Temecula, Calif., earlier than shifting to Los Angeles in center college to star within the Disney Channel sequence Bizaardvark, took to social media on Saturday (June 14) amid widespread protests. The demonstrations erupted in response to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids focusing on a number of workplaces throughout L.A., citing alleged immigration violations.
“I’ve lived in LA my complete life and I’m deeply upset about these violent deportations of my neighbors underneath the present administration,” Rodrigo wrote on her Instagram Story. “LA merely wouldn’t exist with out immigrants. Treating hardworking group members with such little respect, empathy, and due course of is terrible. I stand with the attractive, various group of Los Angeles and with immigrants all throughout America. I stand for our proper to freedom of speech and freedom to protest.”
Rodrigo additionally shared a hyperlink to a “Know Your Rights” resource page on the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) web site. In a follow-up put up on her IG Story, the “Vampire” singer shared a photo from what gave the impression to be a protest, that includes a hand-crafted signal with a crossed-out crown and the phrases “in our USA” — a probable nod to the “No Kings Day” demonstrations held on June 14 in response to President Donald Trump’s 79th birthday navy parade in Washington, D.C.
Rodrigo isn’t the one music star elevating her voice in response to the latest ICE raids and Nationwide Guard presence in Los Angeles. Following President Trump’s early June deployment of Nationwide Guard troops to town, a wave of artists — together with Tyler, The Creator, Finneas, The Recreation, Inexperienced Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong, Kehlani, Tom Morello, Reneé Rapp and Rebecca Black — have publicly condemned the administration’s actions. Many California officers have denounced the deployment as unconstitutional and inflammatory.
“F—Ok ICE,” Tyler wrote on his Instagram Story, sharing a clip from the 2002 movie Paid in Full by which the phrase is chanted repeatedly. Finneas additionally spoke out after claiming he was tear-gassed whereas attending what he described as a “very peaceable” protest in downtown L.A. “Tear-gassed nearly instantly on the very peaceable protest downtown. They’re inciting this,” the Grammy-winning artist and producer posted June 8 on his Instagram Story.