Lady Gaga Pauses Concert to Give Anti-ICE Speech

Lady Gaga is speaking out against ICE.

The 39-year-old Fame Monster superstar was holding her latest Mayhem Ball tour stop on Wednesday (January 28) in Tokyo, Japan.

“I want to take a second to talk about something that’s extremely important to me,” she began.

“Something important to people all over the world and especially in America right now. In a couple of days, I’m gonna be heading home and my heart is aching thinking about the people, the children, the families, all over America, who are being mercilessly targeted by ICE. I’m thinking about all of their pain and how their lives are being destroyed right in front of us.”

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“I’m also thinking about Minnesota and everyone back at home who is living in so much fear and searching for answers on what we all should do. When entire communities lose their sense of safety and belonging, it breaks something in all of us. I hope that you’ll all stand with us tonight. I know we’re not in America right now, but we are with our community and we love you,” she said.

If you didn’t know, a 37-year-old ICU nurse named Alex Pretti was just fatally shot and killed by an ICE Agent in Minneapolis, Minnesota. It was the third shooting by ICE Agents in Minneapolis this month.

She then dedicated a performance of Joanne’s “Come to Mama” to “everyone who is suffering, to everyone who’s feeling alone and helpless, anyone who’s lost a loved one and is it having a difficult time, an impossible time, seeing when the end will be near.”

“We need to get back to a place of safety and peace and accountability. Good people shouldn’t have to fight so hard and risk their lives for well-being and respect and I hope, I hope our leaders are listening. I hope you’re listening to us ask you to change your course of action swiftly and have mercy on everyone in our country. At a time where it doesn’t feel like it’s easy to have hope, it is my community and my friends, my family that hold me up. So, I would like to sing a song that does have some hope in it, to try to give us a little bit tonight,” Gaga said to the crowd. See fan footage of the full speech here.

At the same time, Bruce Springsteen also just released an anti-ICE protest song.

See what other celebrities have said about the most recent ICE shooting.