Natalie Portman in an ICE OUT pin.
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As ICE agents continue to provoke terror in cities across America, including Minneapolis, celebrities are speaking out. “ICE OUT” pins first appeared on a red carpet at the Golden Globes, but actors, directors, and producers continued to send the message at the Sundance Film Festival and the Resonator Awards in solidarity with victims such as Liam Ramos, Alex Pretti, Renee Good, and Keith Porter Jr. Others have shared their thoughts on their social-media platforms, highlighting resources for people to help or donate — and sometimes calling out other celebrities for not publicly commenting on the atrocities. It’s the least they can do.
Grande wore an ICE OUT pin to the Golden Globe Awards and shared a post promoting January 30 as the day of a nationwide shutdown in protest of ICE.
Pop star Rodrigo has consistently spoken out against ICE. She wore an ICE OUT pin to the Resonator Awards on January 28. “ICE’s actions are unconscionable but we are not powerless,” she wrote on her Instagram Story. “Our actions matter. I stand with Minnesota.”
Eilish shared several posts, including one that called ICE a “federally funded and supported terrorist group.” Following Pretti’s shooting, she posted, “Hey my fellow celebrities u gonna speak up? Or.”
Pascal has posted against ICE many times on his Instagram grid. “Truth is a line of demarcation between a democratic government and authoritarian regime,” he wrote in one post. “Mr Pretti and Rene Good are dead. The American people deserve to know what happened.” He then tagged the New York Times.
Portman wore an ICE OUT pin at Sundance. “It’s really impossible not to talk about what is happening right now and the brutality of ICE and how it has to stop immediately,” she told Variety on the red carpet for her film The Gallerist. “But also there’s a beautiful community that Americans are showing right now. They’re showing up for each other, protecting each other, and fighting for their freedom. It’s a bittersweet moment to celebrate something we’re so proud of on the backdrop of our nation in pain.”
Actress and director Wilde also wore a pin at Sundance. “People are being murdered, and I don’t want to normalize seeing people murdered on the internet or on film,” she told Variety while promoting her movie The Invite. “If we can do anything to support the movement to cast ICE out, to delegitimize this unbelievably criminal organization, then that’s what we should be doing.” She added, “You see the marches happening around the country — Americans are speaking up in huge numbers. It’s dangerous to be a protester now, and people are still going out into the streets, which is incredibly inspiring.”
Close used her Instagram Reels to lambaste Donald Trump and ICE. “I am outraged and sickened by what is happening under the Trump regime,” she said in a video captioned “I can’t sit on the sidelines.” “The cruelty, inhumanity, and arrogance; the voracious corruption, the cowardice, the sickening hypocrisy, the blatant manipulation of facts; and now the cold-blooded murder of American citizens. I felt for a long time that there are thousands and thousands of American citizens with cellars full of guns. I fear that ICE is giving them the excuse to pull the trigger.”
Norton, who stars in Wilde’s film The Invite, was clear about his stance on ICE at Sundance, telling The Hollywood Reporter how strange it felt to do interviews while ICE was on the streets. “These days it’s, ‘What are we gonna do about mass Gestapo shooting American citizens?’” Norton said. “We are sitting here talking about movies while an illegal army is being mounted against U.S. citizens.”
Country band the Chicks shared a photo to their Instagram of a protester using their lyric “I’m not ready to make nice” on a poster. “It’s happening right in front of us,” the Chicks wrote in the caption. “They are killing Americans, disappearing human beings, and breaking up families. We cannot stand by and watch democracy disintegrate. Human decency isn’t Republican or Democrat. It’s American.”
Wednesday star Ortega found reason for hope, speaking to the Spanish-language news outlet EFE: “I’m really encouraged by the spirit of the American people and the people who feel the need to say something, but the lack of any real resolution or reprimanding against the officers is incredibly frightening and disappointing to see from our government.”
Comedian Stalter grounded her critique of ICE in her Christianity. “You can argue the context of any Scripture, but you can’t argue that God doesn’t want us to love our neighbors, and our neighbors are being hunted and kidnapped and attacked daily,” she said on her Instagram. “Our government is killing people, and they are lying to us.”
On The View, Goldberg became emotional about Pretti’s killing. “They murdered a man,” she said, cutting herself off. “He is standing, he has his phone, and he has a bottle of water. And they shot him ten times. What the — I don’t know what you’re investigating if you’re not investigating the straight-up murder. This is the second one, the second murder of an American citizen.”
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