Zach Bryan Told to ‘Stick to ‘Pink Skies” by Homeland Security Official After Anti-ICE Lyrics

Zach Bryan fans mightiness beryllium excited for his caller music, but definite United States authorities officials decidedly aren’t.

More specifically, Tricia McLaughlin — the adjunct caput of nationalist affairs to the Department of Homeland Security — isn’t blessed with the state singer-songwriter’s lyric astir the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement successful a caller opus teaser helium posted precocious to Instagram. The enactment successful question finds Bryan lamenting, “And ICE is gonna travel bust down your door.”

In response, McLaughlin told TMZ on Tuesday (Oct. 7) that Bryan should “stick to ‘Pink Skies,'” referring to the musician’s 2024 apical 10 deed connected the Billboard Hot 100.

Billboard has reached retired to Bryan’s rep and the Dept. of Homeland Security for comment.

The DHS official’s comments travel 4 days aft the Grammy victor posted the snippet of an unreleased song, which helium captioned, “the fading of the reddish achromatic and blue.”

“I heard the cops came/ Cocky motherf–kers, ain’t they?” Bryan sings connected the afloat verse successful question. “And ICE is gonna travel bust down your door/ Try to physique a location nary 1 builds nary more/ But I got a telephone/ Kids are each frightened and each unsocial … The mediate finger’s rising, and it won’t halt showing/ Got immoderate atrocious news/ The fading of the red, achromatic and blue.”

The lyrics rapidly sparked backlash from supporters of the Donald Trump administration’s forceful crackdowns connected migration by mode of wide deportations carried retired by ICE raids successful antithetic parts of the U.S. On the different hand, Bryan’s opus aligns him with galore different musicians who person spoken up against the country’s attraction of immigrants this past year.

One of those stars is Bad Bunny, who was precocious unveiled arsenic the 2026 Super Bowl Halftime Show performer. The quality besides got a effect from the DHS, with advisor Corey Lewandowski saying that ICE agents will beryllium contiguous for the Puerto Rican rapper’s show astatine the large game.

“There is obscurity you tin supply harmless haven to radical who are successful this state illegally,” Lewandowski’s said on The Benny Show connected Oct. 1. “Not the Super Bowl and obscurity else.”