Bruce Springsteen on President Trump’s Muslim Ban: ‘America Is A Nation of Immigrants’
During a concert in Adelaide, Australia on Monday night, Bruce Springsteen protested President Trump’s controversial executive order, which forbids refugees and citizens from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.
“America is a nation of immigrants and we find this anti-democratic and fundamentally un-American,” he said during the concert before launching into his song “American Land”.
The song is based on a poem written by a 19th century steelworker and celebrates the American-immigrant experience.
Springsteen is a vocal opponent of the Trump administration, having shared his opinions onstage a week earlier at a concert in Perth, Australia.
The Boss expressed his solidarity for the Women’s March on Washington stating, “Our hearts and spirits are with the hundreds of thousands of women and men that marched yesterday in every city of America. And in Melbourne.”
The rocker added, “We rallied against hate and division and in support of tolerance, inclusion, reproductive rights, civil rights, racial justice, LGBTQ rights, the environment, wage equality, gender equality, health care and immigrant rights. We stand with you. We are the new American resistance”.
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