Noem reacts to Bad Bunny, Billie Eilish bashing ICE at Grammys: ‘You have no idea’
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Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem spoke out after Bad Bunny, Billie Eilish and other celebrities shamed US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) at the Grammy Awards, telling Fox News Digital that their criticism was “ignorant.”
“I want them to know that our ICE officers are wonderful, wonderful people. Many of these officers live in these communities where they do enforcement work,” Noem told Fox News Digital during an interview at the Mississippi National Guard headquarters in Tupelo on Monday. The secretary visited the governor, Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) officials and members of the military after Winter Storm Fern.
“Their families live there and their neighbors protect them by taking dangerous criminals off the streets. They go after those murderers and rapists, people who smuggle drugs, and protect America,” continued Noem.
“That’s what President Trump said he was going to do, he said he was going to make us safer, and he’s done it. We’ve reached the lowest crime rates in the history of this country, the lowest homicide and crime rate we’ve recorded in over 100 years,” Noem also told Fox News Digital. “So the real consequences, people are feeling it in their own communities, and it’s too bad that ignorant famous artists are making statements like this without really knowing how great the American people are. ICE and Border Patrol officials father.”
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Bad Bunny, left, and Billie Eilish, center, at the Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem. (Kevin Winter/Getty Images for The Recording Academy; Alex Brandon/Getty Images)
Pop star Billie Eilish was among several celebrities who used the stage at Sunday’s Grammy Awards to criticize the Trump administration and ICE.
“No one is illegal in the stolen world,” Eilish said while accepting the Grammy Award for Song of the Year. “I feel really positive in this room, and I feel like we have to keep going fighting and talking and protesting. Our words really do matter, and people do. ”
“And f— ICE, that’s all I’m going to say, I’m sorry,” he added.
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Bad Bunny accepted the award for Album of the Year for “Debí Tirar Más Fotos” during the 68th annual Grammy Awards on Sunday, Feb. 1, 2026, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello)
Wearing an “ICE OUT” pin, Eilish reiterated the urgency of continued activism during her comments.
Puerto Rican singer Bad Bunny also took aim at ICE during his Grammy acceptance speech, using the occasion to criticize the organization and defend the humanity of immigrants.
SZA and Billie Eilish at the Grammy Awards. Both artists criticized ICE on Sunday. (Left (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images), Right (Julian Hamilton/WireImage))
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“ICE out,” said the ugly rabbit while accepting the Grammy for Best Música Urbana Album. “We are not savages, we are not animals, we are not aliens – we are human, and we are Americans.”
Fox News Digital’s Nora Moriarty contributed to this report.
