The White House comments come after a Trump adviser suggested ICE agents would be at the Super Bowl following Bad Bunny’s announcement as the halftime show.
WASHINGTON — White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Friday there is no “tangible plan” for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to be at the Super Bowl in February after Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny was announced as the halftime show performer.
“As far as ICE being at the Super Bowl, as far as I’m aware there’s no tangible plan for that in store right now,” Leavitt said. “However, of course this administration is always going to arrest and deport illegal immigrants when we find them if they are criminals. We’re going to do the right thing by our country.”
Leavitt’s comments came after one of President Donald Trump’s advisers suggested that ICE agents could be present at Levi’s Stadium in Santa Clara, California during Super Bowl LX.
Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s former campaign manager and a current adviser at the Department of Homeland Security, was asked during a conversation with conservative commentator Benny Johnson whether ICE would have agents there for the Bad Bunny Super Bowl halftime show.
“Benny, there is nowhere that you can provide safe haven to people who are in this country illegally, not the Super Bowl and nowhere else,” Lewandowski said. “We will find you, we will apprehend you, we will put you in a detention facility and we will deport you, so know that that is a very real situation under this administration.”
Lewandowski never directly said that ICE agents would attend the game.
Security around the Super Bowl is always extremely tight with local, state and federal officials working together to keep the high-profile event safe.
Bad Bunny, born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio, said in a recent interview with i-D Magazine, that one of the reasons his recent residency bypassed the continental U.S. were concerns around the mass deportations of Latinos.
“There was the issue of — like, (expletive) ICE could be outside (my concert). And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about,” he told the publication.
Bad Bunny has long been critical of Trump and backed Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election. “I will never forget what Donald Trump did and what he did not do when Puerto Rico needed a caring and a competent leader,” he said in a video last year.
For some Trump supporters, Bad Bunny’s booking at the 2026 Super Bowl is a divisive political pick.
Asked for the White House’s opinion, Leavitt said Trump may have more to say at some point.
“I won’t get ahead of him,” she said. “I won’t reveal what he feels about this.”
The Associated Press contributed to this report.