Bruce Springsteen released a new song, “Streets of Minneapolis,” on Wednesday in response to two fatal shootings by federal immigration enforcement agents in the city this month.
Mr. Springsteen dedicated the song to “the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good.” He said he wrote it on Saturday, the same day immigration agents killed Mr. Pretti, a 37-year-old I.C.U. nurse, during a confrontation. Ms. Good, a 37-year-old mother of three, was killed by an ICE agent on Jan. 7.
The lyrics describe the immigration crackdown in Minneapolis, where a surge of federal agents has led to widespread protests, with people like Mr. Pretti recording confrontations with their cellphones and blowing whistles to alert others to the presence of immigration agents.
“Their claim was self-defense, sir,” Springsteen sings of the Trump administration’s justification for the shootings. “Just don’t believe your eyes / It’s our blood and bones / And these whistles and phones / Against Miller and Noem’s dirty lies.”