Grammys 2026: Artists Advocate for Immigrants Amidst Policy Backlash
The 2026 Grammy Awards became a platform for artists to voice their support for immigrants, coinciding with widespread immigration protests across the country. The event took place amidst ongoing backlash against the Trump administration's immigration policies and mass deportation campaign, according to ABC News.
Several winners, including Bad Bunny and Olivia Dean, used their acceptance speeches to highlight the importance of immigration. Olivia Dean, winner of the best new artist award, noted her family's immigrant history. "I'm up here as a granddaughter of an immigrant," Dean said, referencing her Jamaican and Guyanese heritage, as reported by The New York Times.
The Trump administration also faced legal challenges regarding its immigration policies. A coalition of immigrant rights organizations, legal advocacy groups, and U.S. citizens filed a federal lawsuit challenging the administration's ban on immigrant visa processing for nationals of 75 countries, Fox News reported. The lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, argues that the policy unlawfully rewrites U.S. immigration law and discriminates based on nationality and race, effectively "eviscerating decades of settled immigration law."
In other news related to the Trump administration, a federal judge ruled against the Interior Department's order to halt work on a multibillion-dollar wind farm off the coast of New York State, marking the fifth time the courts have rejected the administration's efforts to impede the country's offshore wind industry, according to The New York Times. Judge Royce Lamberth of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia issued a preliminary injunction allowing the developer of the New York project, Sunrise Wind, to resume construction while the legal battle continues. The Interior Department had ordered all work to halt on Sunrise Wind and four other wind farms off the East Coast in December.
In economic news, President Trump announced an initial trade deal with India, which would reduce tariffs to 18%, The New York Times reported. The agreement, effective immediately, aims to defuse tariff tensions that had escalated last year. In a social media post, Prime Minister Narendra Modi expressed his delight at the tariff reduction but provided few details.
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