{"id":2186042,"date":"2025-12-03T23:03:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2186042"},"modified":"2025-12-03T23:03:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T23:03:14","slug":"the-dhs-continues-to-poach-music-for-ice-recruitment-ads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/the-dhs-continues-to-poach-music-for-ice-recruitment-ads\/","title":{"rendered":"The DHS continues to poach music for ICE recruitment ads"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Another week, another pop star angry that their song was used without their permission in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement recruitment ad.<\/p>\n

Singer Sabrina Carpenter\u2019s song \u201cJuno\u201d appeared as the soundtrack for a Department of Homeland Security promotional video posted on the official X account of the White House. It featured a montage of clips appearing to show ICE officers chasing down, tackling and handcuffing people in what looks to be the city of Chicago. The lyrics \u2014 \u201cWanna try out some freaky positions? Have you ever tried this one?\u201d \u2014 from the song play atop the footage.<\/p>\n

\u201c[T]his video is evil and disgusting,\u201d Carpenter<\/a> posted on<\/a> Tuesday. \u201cDo not ever involve me or my music to benefit your inhumane agenda.\u201d<\/p>\n

Too late, since the DHS had already done it without her knowledge. <\/p>\n

Using the work of pop music performers minus their consent is the only way the White House can score their ICE campaign with music clips that actually appeal to people younger than 50.<\/p>\n

The list of luminaries who have condemned the agency\u2019s actions or filed legal copyright removal requests (Jay-Z had his song \u201cPublic Service Announcement\u201d struck<\/a> from a DHS social media post) reads like a sold-out Coachella lineup: Jay-Z, Olivia Rodrigo, MGMT, Zach Bryan, The Cure, Usher, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club. It also includes the estates and companies that represent Tom Petty\u2019s \u201cI Won\u2019t Back Down,\u201d Pok\u00e9mon\u2019s original theme song \u201cGotta Catch \u2019Em All\u201d and the \u201cWicked\u201d soundtrack\u2019s \u201cDefying Gravity\u201d as sung by Cynthia Erivo. <\/p>\n

As for the catalog of bona fide stars and meme-made celebs who have expressed gratitude for hearing their work in an ICE detainment video? There is no such list.<\/p>\n

From the Stones to Springsteen to Swift, GOP campaigns, rallies and election-year ads have featured the music of performers who didn\u2019t want their songs associated with Reagan\u2019s trickle-down economics, either Bush administration\u2019s Gulf war, or Trump\u2019s scorched-earth policies. There wasn\u2019t, and still isn\u2019t, a wealth of popular artists who openly embrace right-wing ideals. Kid Rock and Lee Greenwood, the latter of whom teamed up with Trump to release a \u201cGod Bless the USA\u201d bible, can\u2019t do it all.<\/p>\n

The right\u2019s strategy has been to use a song once, knowing that a copyright infringement complaint will likely follow, then avoid further legal action by moving on to another artist\u2019s work. Call it poach and run.<\/p>\n

But the DHS, like Trump\u2019s White House, has added another element to its grift by capitalizing on the complaints that follow its theft of popular songs. <\/p>\n

Carpenter\u2019s response to her song being used without her consent was met with a trolling retort from the DHS. The department weaponized the singer\u2019s own lyrics against her to capitalize on the negative attention (a hallmark of MAGA\u2019s winning strategy in gaming the attention economy). <\/p>\n

\u201cHere\u2019s a Short n\u2019 Sweet message for Sabrina Carpenter: we won\u2019t apologize for deporting dangerous criminal illegal murderers, rapists, and pedophiles from our country. Anyone who would defend these sick monsters must be stupid, or is it slow?\u201d said White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson in a statement, referencing Carpenter\u2019s recent single \u201cManchild\u201d and the title of her 2024 album, \u201cShort n\u2019 Sweet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Crazy idea: The administration might also catch pedophiles and rapists by releasing unredacted copies of the Epstein files. But how to turn that ugliness into a \u201cfun\u201d video with a quippy caption? <\/p>\n

The DHS was forced to remove MGMT\u2019s \u201cLittle Dark Age\u201d from an ICE recruitment ad after the band issued a takedown request. The video, posted in October, showed agents arresting protesters outside an ICE facility in Portland, Ore. It was captioned: \u201cEnd of the Dark Age, beginning of the Golden Age.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House also used British singer Jess Glynne\u2019s 2015 single \u201cHold My Hand,\u201d a song that recently made a comeback in a viral Jet2 holiday ad<\/a>, to promote its deportation operation over the summer. The DHS posted the song clip to its official social media channels, along with the caption: \u201cWhen ICE books you a one-way Jet2 holiday to deportation. Nothing beats it!\u201d<\/p>\n

Glynne and the airline company condemned the ad. But by then, the DHS was on to the next song by an artist who wanted nothing to do with them. <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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