US rock band Semisonic has criticised the White Home for utilizing their tune Closing Time in a social media publish that confirmed a shackled deportee.
The Trump administration shared the video on Monday two days after a whole bunch of alleged Venezuelan gang members have been controversially deported by the White Home to a supermax jail in El Salvador.
The video, which additionally confirmed deportees boarding a airplane, was captioned with the tune’s lyrics: “You don’t have to go home but you can’t stay here.”
Semisonic stated in a press release after the video was shared: “We did not authorise or condone the White House’s use of our song in any way. And no, they didn’t ask. The song is about joy and possibilities and hope, and they have missed the point entirely.”
Requested in regards to the video on Monday, White Home press secretary Karoline Leavitt stated “our entire government clearly is leaning into the message of this president”.
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US District Choose James E Boasberg had issued an order briefly blocking the deportations on Saturday, however legal professionals instructed him there have been already two planes with immigrants within the air – one headed for El Salvador, the opposite for Honduras.
Ms Leavitt stated on Sunday that the greater than 200 individuals deported have been members of the Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang – which originated in an infamously lawless jail within the central Venezuelan state of Aragua.
It got here earlier than Jorge Rodriguez, the president of Venezuela’s Nationwide Meeting, stated those that have been deported have been denied due course of.
Talking at a press convention on Monday, Mr Rodriguez stated the individuals deported weren’t identified to have dedicated any crimes in america or El Salvador, and that Venezuela would do every thing it might to have them returned dwelling.
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It additionally emerged on Monday that the US Justice Division is looking for to take away Mr Boasberg because the decide presiding over the Venezuelan deportation case.
The request to take away Mr Boasberg got here simply earlier than a listening to in his Washington courtroom started on the matteron Monday night.
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Semisonic performing in 1998. Pic: AP
Band be part of unique membership
Semisonic be part of a protracted listing of performers who’ve objected to Donald Trump utilizing their songs, together with Abba, Bruce Springsteen, Rihanna, Phil Collins, Pharrell, John Fogerty, Neil Younger, Eddy Grant, Panic! on the Disco, R.E.M., Weapons N’ Roses, Celine Dion, Beyonce and Adele.
Closing Time is from the band’s 1998 album Feeling Unusually Advantageous, which peaked at quantity 43 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
The tune hit quantity 4 on Billboard’s Grownup Various Airplay chart and earned a Grammy nomination for finest rock tune.
