“Saturday Night Live” evenly took on ICE throughout “Weekend Replace,” hours after a 37-year-old Minneapolis intensive care nurse was killed by Border Patrol brokers.
“Vice President J.D. Vance criticized protesters confronting ICE Officers, saying they need to as an alternative write an op-ed or argue about it on social media. You already know, similar to these younger students did on January sixth,” Michael Che stated through the January 24 episode, motioning to a photograph of the assault on the Capitol in 2021.
He continued, “I get that ICE brokers are folks, allegedly, and so they have a job to do. However sooner or later whilst you’re pepper-spraying previous girls or taking pictures at a nurse, do you ever cease to ask your self, ‘Are we dicks?’”
The chilly open on “SNL” was directed at Donald Trump with a spoof on awards shows, that includes Michael Myers returning as Elon Musk, who joked, “After what all my little freaks and psychos in ICE have been doing, I want extra distractions.”
Earlier within the day on Saturday, Natalie Portman spoke out against ICE at Selection‘s Sundance Studio, sporting “ICE Out” and “Be Good” pins, the latter referencing Renée Good, a lady who was killed by ICE earlier this month.
“We’re additionally at a second in our nation’s historical past that’s fairly devastating,” Portman stated. “It’s actually unattainable to not speak about what is occurring proper now and the brutality of ICE and the way it has to cease instantly. But in addition, there’s a lovely group that Individuals are displaying proper now. They’re displaying up for one another, defending one another and combating for his or her freedom. It’s a bittersweet second to have fun one thing we’re so pleased with on the backdrop of our nation in ache.”
