Immigration agents will be at Super Bowl, Homeland Security official says

Department of Homeland Security adviser Corey Lewandowski says Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents will be at Super Bowl 60.

“There is nowhere that you can provide safe haven to people in this country illegally. Not the Super Bowl and nowhere else. We will find you. We will apprehend you. We will put you in a detention facility, and we will deport you,” Mr. Lewandowski said in an appearance Wednesday on “The Benny Show” hosted by conservative content creator Benny Johnson.

Super Bowl 60 will be played on Feb. 8, 2026, at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California, home of the NFL’s San Francisco 49ers. The halftime show will be performed by “Bad Bunny,” birth name Benito Ocasio, a Puerto Rican singer and critic of the administration’s immigration enforcement policies.

Mr. Ocasio told i-D magazine last month that he is skipping the U.S. on an upcoming world tour because “Latinos and Puerto Ricans of the United States could also travel here, or to any part of the world. But there was the issue of — like … ICE could be outside. And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about.”

Regarding the Super Bowl, Mr. Ocasio said in an NFL release that “what I’m feeling goes beyond myself. It’s for those who came before me and ran countless yards so I could come in and score a touchdown… this is for my people, my culture, and our history,” adding in Spanish that people should tell their grandmothers that he is the Super Bowl halftime performer.

Mr. Lewandowski told Mr. Johnson that Mr. Ocasio’s performance had no effect on whether immigration enforcement would occur.

“I don’t care if it’s a concert for Johnny Smith or Bad Bunny or anybody else. We’re going to do enforcement everywhere. We are going to make Americans safe. That is a directive from the president. If you’re in this country illegally, do yourself a favor: go home,” Mr. Lewandowski said.