Overview
- On Jan. 17 in Atlanta, Eilish accepted the MLK Jr. Beloved Community Environmental Justice Award from the King Center.
- In prepared remarks, she criticized the Trump administration and ICE, saying many no longer feel safe in their homes or on their streets.
- She warned about cuts to climate resources and harms from fossil fuels and animal agriculture, linking environmental justice to community safety.
- After the killing of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE agent earlier in January, she posted Instagram Stories calling ICE a terrorist group and shared the names of 32 people who died in ICE custody in 2025.
- DHS publicly condemned her social posts as “garbage rhetoric,” while her advocacy includes a pledged $11.5 million donation to climate and food-equity groups through The Changemaker Program.