Bruce Springsteen will join the millions of Americans expected to protest President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown during Saturday’s nationwide No Kings demonstrations with a performance of his resistance ballad “Streets of Minneapolis” at the Minnesota Capitol in St. Paul.
Springsteen said he wrote the song “in response to the state terror being visited on the city of Minneapolis” after federal immigration enforcement officers shot to death Renee Good and Alex Pretti in the city. The shootings in January occurred during the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown on the Democratic-run city.
The famed American rock musician has emerged as a vocal critic of the administration’s harsh immigration agenda. He lent his iconic 1984 hit “Born in the U.S.A.” to the American Civil Liberties Union’s campaign to uphold birthright citizenship. The Supreme Court is slated to hear oral arguments next month in the class-action lawsuit Trump v. Barbara, which challenges the legality of the president’s attempt to bypass the 14th Amendment’s birthright citizenship guarantee.
The No Kings movement has mobilized millions of peaceful protesters in cities across the country since Trump returned to the White House last year. The purpose of the demonstrations is to push back on Trump’s attempted expansion of executive power and his influence over the country’s judiciary, according to the organizers.








