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\n\tIn a sign of the times, perhaps the most notable accessory on the Grammys red carpet<\/a> this year wasn\u2019t a designer outfit or piece of custom jewelry, but rather a black-and-white pin with a clear-cut political message: \u201cICE<\/a> OUT.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tOn Sunday, celebrities including Billie Eilish<\/a>, Justin and Hailey Bieber<\/a>, Finneas, Kehlani<\/a> and songwriter Amy Allen<\/a> wore the pins as they arrived at the Crypto.com Arena in downtown Los Angeles for the awards<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tThis red carpet display stands in resistance of federal immigration agents following the high-profile killings of Ren\u00e9e Good and Alex Pretti in Minneapolis by members of federal law enforcement. Those events sparked a national outcry about the tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Border Patrol.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI really wanted to say fuck ICE,\u201d Kehlani told THR<\/a> on the red carpet after saying the same during her acceptance speech in the premiere ceremony. \u201cWe\u2019re too powerful of a group to all be in a room at the same time and not make some kind of statement in our country. It\u2019s brainless to me.\u201d <\/p>\n \n\tAllen echoed the \u201cNights Like This\u201d singer\u2019s sentiment, telling THR<\/a> that it was \u201cimportant\u201d to wear the \u201cICE OUT\u201d pin \u201cbecause tonight is obviously a big visibility night, and anybody that has an opportunity to spread the word and get the message out that obviously change needs to happen in this country in so many ways. [I] just felt like I needed to wear it today, and I hope I see a lot of other ones out there today too.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe pins are part of a campaign organized by the American Civil Liberties Union, Maremoto, the National Domestic Workers Alliance and Working Families Power that originated with the Golden Globes but has expanded in recent weeks amid the immigration enforcement reckoning.<\/p>\n \n\tThe idea for the pins emerged about 36 hours before the Globes on Jan. 11, according to Working Families Power director of strategy Nelini Stamp. Good had been shot by an ICE officer just days before, and a group of activists realized they had some Hollywood acquaintances, like acting nominee Mark Ruffalo, who would be open to making a statement.<\/p>\n \n\tOff the carpet, Eilish took a moment while she was accepting the Grammy for song of the year<\/a> to address the ongoing political situation. \u201cAs grateful as I feel, I honestly don\u2019t feel like I need to say anything, but that no one is illegal on stolen land \u2026 It\u2019s just really hard to know what to say and what to do right now, and I feel really hopeful in this room,\u201d the \u201cWildflower\u201d singer said.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cOur voices really do matter and the people matter,\u201d she continued. \u201cFuck ICE,\u201d she added, with the latter two words bleeped on the CBS telecast.<\/p>\n \n\tWhile Bad Bunny didn\u2019t wear the pin on the carpet, he reiterated the message in his acceptance speech<\/a> for best m\u00fasica urbana album. \u201cBefore I say thanks to God, I\u2019m going to say\u00a0ICE\u00a0out,\u201d he began.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cWe\u2019re not savages, we\u2019re not animals, we\u2019re not aliens, we are humans and we are Americans,\u201d Bad Bunny continued. \u201cThe hate gets more powerful with more hate. The only thing that is more powerful than hate is love. So we need to be different. If we fight, we have to do it with love. We don\u2019t hate them. We love our people. We love our family, and that\u2019s the way to do it with love. Don\u2019t forget that, please. Thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tOrganizations affiliated with the campaign reached out to their celebrity contacts and ultimately Ruffalo, Ariana Grande, Jean Smart, Natasha Lyonne and Wanda Sykes wore the pins<\/a> at the ceremony. \u201cOur purpose was like, if the people in power are not going to do anything about this, we need to make sure that [during] every single cultural event that people see this message of \u2018ICE OUT\u2019 and \u2018BE GOOD,\u2019\u201d Stamp said. <\/p>\n \n\tThe pins reemerged at the Sundance Film Festival and the Resonator Awards<\/a> after Pretti was shot and killed by federal agents on Jan. 24. Olivia Wilde, Natalie Portman and Zoey Deutch wore them during press appearances in Park City that same weekend, while musicians Olivia Rodrigo and Dave Grohl donned them at the Jan. 27 Grammys<\/a> Week ceremony.<\/p>\n \n\tStamp has always been focused on the Grammys in particular. \u201cMusic<\/a> has been used for a very long time in our country as a form of resistance, opposition, protest, to express the horrors that people have gone through,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n \n\tThat has been particularly true during Trump\u2019s second term as president, as musicians including Sabrina Carpenter<\/a> and Olivia Rodrigo<\/a> as well as the band Semisonic<\/a> have spoken out against the use of their songs in social media posts about his administration\u2019s immigration policy. On Wednesday, Bruce Springsteen debuted an ICE protest song<\/a> dedicated to the residents of Minneapolis, while Lady Gaga also recently paused a concert<\/a> in Tokyo to condemn the actions of the law enforcement agency.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cI think that this community, musicians, have been at the forefront in entertainment of standing up to what is happening in immigration,\u201d Stamp said.<\/p>\n \n\tIn the week leading up to the Grammys, organizers set up a distribution center for the pins outside West Hollywood\u2019s historic rock club, The Troubadour. On Sunday, they additionally distributed pins at a hotel in downtown L.A.<\/p>\n \n\tHeading into the ceremony, all eyes are especially on Puerto Rican superstar Bad Bunny, who has drawn heated criticism from the Trump administration. After the artist told an interviewer last year that he had not scheduled any U.S. stops on his latest tour in part because he was afraid that ICE agents could show up, Trump and officials in his orbit criticized<\/a> the NFL\u2019s decision to pick him as the Super Bowl halftime headliner.<\/p>\n \n\tThe \u201cBE GOOD\u201d and \u201cICE OUT\u201d pins follow in the tradition of previous red carpet accessories worn by celebrities to support the Time\u2019s Up initiative<\/a> or <\/strong>voter turnout<\/a> in the U.S. And as for those who say that wearing a pin doesn\u2019t accomplish much, Stamp argued that the point of the pins is to popularize the demand to remove ICE from American communities.<\/p>\n \n\tShe expressed hope that the display on Sunday will inspire sympathetic viewers to take action, whether that\u2019s calling their representatives in Congress or donating to support systems. <\/p>\n \n\t\u201dI just hope that people see that and say, I could do something if these folks can do something on one of the world\u2019s biggest stages.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n