Bruce Springsteen, a music legend known for his extreme leftist views, dedicated a performance of his song “Promised Land” to anti-ICE activist Renee Nicole Good at New Jersey’s Light of Day music festival on Saturday.
Springsteen made an unannounced appearance on stage with Joe Grushecky & the Houserockers, where he addressed the crowd by calling Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers the “Gestapo” and “murderers,” and demanded that the law enforcement agency “get the fuck out of Minnesota.”
He had also told the audience that they need to “send a message to this president. And as the mayor of that city has said, ICE should get the fuck out of Minneapolis. So this one is for you, and the memory of the mother of three and American citizen Renee Good.”
Good was shot and killed on January 7 when she tried to use her vehicle to run down an ICE agent in Minneapolis.
“This next song is probably one of my greatest songs. And I don’t want to be out of water tonight, but I wrote this song as an ode to American possibility,” Springsteen said ahead of the song, “both to the beautiful but flawed country that we are, and to the country that we could be.”
“Now, right now, we are living through incredibly critical times. The United States, the ideals and the values for which it stood for the past 250 years, is being tested as it has never been in modern times,” he continued. “Those values and those ideals have never been as endangered as they are right now.”
