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URL: https://maxghenis.com/blog/bad-bunny-immigration-enforcement/

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Bad Bunny named every country in the Americas at the Super Bowl last night. Here’s the data behind the gesture:

• 53% of US immigrants come from the Americas
• 93% of ICE arrests target them
• 45M people speak Spanish at home

Interactive dashboard + sources: maxghenis.com/blog/bad-bunny-immigration-enforcement/

Bluesky

Bad Bunny named 24 countries at the Super Bowl halftime show and said “God bless America” — meaning the continent, not just the US.

I looked at the data: 53% of US immigrants come from the Americas, but 93% of ICE arrests involve nationals from those same countries.

Full breakdown with interactive charts: maxghenis.com/blog/bad-bunny-immigration-enforcement/

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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl halftime show last night named every country in the Americas. I looked at what the data says.

Key findings from Census, ICE, and FOIA data:

• 53% of the 50.2M foreign-born people in the US come from other countries in the Americas (ACS 2024)
• 93% of ICE arrests in 2025 involved nationals from those same countries (UC Berkeley Deportation Data Project)
• 45 million people speak Spanish at home — 61% of all non-English speakers
• Operation Metro Surge in Minneapolis, framed around the Somali community, led to 3,000+ arrests — Mexico and Laos were the top nationalities in DHS-released data, with Somalia third

The post includes an interactive dashboard you can explore by data source, time period, and display mode. All sourced from official government data and FOIA records.

maxghenis.com/blog/bad-bunny-immigration-enforcement/