Lady Gaga Slams ICE at Tour Concert: 'We Need to Get Back to a Place of Safety'

Lady Gaga is the latest big-name artist to speak out against ICE.

During her tour show in Tokyo, Japan, Gaga urged the need for accountability in the US while introducing her song "Come to Mama".

“We need to get back to a place of safety and peace and accountability,” she told the Tokyo Dome crowd (as per Rolling Stone). “Good people shouldn’t have to fight so hard and risk their lives for well-being and respect.

"And I hope our leaders are listening; I hope you’re listening to us ask you to change your course of action swiftly and have mercy on everyone in our country. At a time where it doesn’t feel like it’s easy to have hope, it is my community and my friends, my family that hold me up.”

Gaga added that, despite her being in another country, her message was still important to her and people around the world.

“In a couple of days, I’m gonna be heading home, and my heart is aching thinking about the people — the children, the families, all over America — who are being mercilessly targeted by ICE,” she continued. “I’m thinking about all of their pain and how their lives are being destroyed right in front of us.

"I’m also thinking about Minnesota and everyone back at home who is living in so much fear and searching for answers on what we all should do. When entire communities lose their sense of safety and belonging, it breaks something in all of us.”

She finished by dedicating "Come to Mama" “to everyone who is suffering, to everyone who’s feeling alone and helpless, anyone who’s lost a loved one and is having a difficult time, an impossible time, seeing when the end will be near.”

Gaga has one more concert in Tokyo this week before she quickly returns to the US to appear at the 2026 Grammys, where she's in with a good chance of winning multiple gongs. She'll then embark on an additional North American leg of her tour after the Grammys.

Gaga's speech follows several other notable figures addressing ICE in public.

Bruce Springsteen shared a new song, "Streets of Minneapolis", this week, a response to the ICE-related killings in the titular city. Tom Morello, meanwhile, is set to lead a protest concert in the same city.