Overview
- Estefan said she keeps a U.S. passport card with her at all times "just in case," despite having lived in the country for decades.
- She reported knowing legally present people who were detained, citing a woman who lived in the U.S. for 25 years and spent five months in a detention center after an immigration appointment.
- The four-time Grammy winner said she has never seen freedoms erode as they are now, drawing a direct comparison to her experience leaving Cuba.
- She expressed concern that people can be stopped for speaking Spanish or having darker skin, referencing a Supreme Court ruling as she understands it.
- While saying immigration should be legal and organized, she condemned family separations and accounts of migrants being mistreated, including women thrown to the ground in front of children.