Puerto Rican musician Bad Bunny stated in an interview that he didn’t include the United States in his 2025-2026 concert tour as a result of of fear that US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) would raid the concert venues.
“People from the US could come here to see the show. Latinos and Puerto Ricans of the United States could also travel here, or to any part of the world,” he informed i-D journal. “But there was the issue that … ICE could be outside (my concert venue). And it’s something that we were talking about and very concerned about.”
The musician has beforehand been crucial of ICE operations, which have intensified below US President Donald Trump. He posted an Instagram video in June in which he expressed outrage at federal brokers in Puerto Rico for not “leaving these people working here alone.”
Bad Bunny – born Benito Antonio Martinez Ocasio – kicked off the concert tour with a two-month residency on the Coliseo de Puerto Rico José Miguel Agrelot in San Juan. The residency, titled “I Don’t Want to Leave Here,” spans 30 live shows on the Caribbean island and concludes on Sept 14. The reveals additionally included some Hollywood stars.
The artist will proceed his concert tour selling the brand new album “Debí tirar más fotos” after the residency. The “Debí tirar más fotos World Tour” will start on Nov. 21 in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, and culminate in Brussels, Belgium, on July 22, 2026. The tour will contact Latin America, Europe, Asia and Oceania.
“There were many reasons why I didn’t show up in the US, and none of them were out of hate,” Bad Bunny stated in the interview. “I’ve performed there many times.” He added: “I’ve enjoyed connecting with Latinos who have been living in the United States.”
Bad Bunny, who endorsed Democrat Kamala Harris in the 2024 US presidential election, has used his new album and world concert tour to advertise Puerto Rican tradition and its totally different musical genres and amplify the voices of marginalized individuals.