Cardi B issues warning to ICE at Calif. concert and Homeland Security responds

Cardi B spoke out against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) during a California concert on Wednesday night, and she did not mince words.

The 33-year-old singer (born Belcalis Marlenis Almanzar) kicked off her Little Miss Drama Tour at the Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, California.

She was singing a brief part of “La Cucaracha” when she gazed into the crowd and asked how many Mexicans or Guatemalans in attendance.

The rapper proceeded to tell the crowd, “B—h, if ICE come in here, we gon’ jump they a–es.”

The former stripper added, “B—h, I got some bear mace in the back,” as the crowd cheered before she added, “They ain’t taking my fans, b—h.”

Cardi B then launched into her hit song “I Like It” and continued the show, but it didn’t take long for Homeland Security to respond to the singer.

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The official X page for the Department of Homeland Security quote-retweeted a post about her anti-ICE statement, clapping back at her.

“As long as she doesn’t drug and rob our agents, we’ll consider that an improvement over her past behavior,” the agency said in the tweet.

The post refers to controversial comments she made during an Instagram Live video in 2016, where she admitted to drugging and robbing men when she worked as a stripper.

“N****s must’ve forgot, my n***a, the shit that I did to muthaf—in’ survive. I had to go strip. I had to go, ‘Oh yeah, you wanna f–k me? Yeah yeah yeah, let’s go back to this hotel,’” she said in the video.

“And I drugged n****s up and I robbed them. That’s what I used to do. Nothing was muthaf—in’ handed to me, my n—a. Nothing!” she said.

When the comments resurfaced in 2019, she addressed the controversy on social media, stating they were, “things that I felt I needed to do to make a living.”

“I never claim to be perfect or come from a perfect world wit a perfect past, I speak my truth, I always speak my own s–t,” she wrote at the time.

She added that the hip-hop culture she comes from is, “where you can talk about about where you come from, talk about the wrong things you had to do to get where you are.”

“I made the choices that I did at the time because I had very limited options. I was blessed to have been able to rise from that, but so many women have not. Whether or not they were poor choice at the time, I did what I had to do to survive,” she added.

She concluded her social media message with, “I have a past that I can’t change, we all do.”