21 Savage Says Young Immigrants Should Be Given Automatic U.S. Citizenship
Written by SOURCE on October 4, 2019
21 Savage, who received an award from the National Immigration Law Center Thursday night, said prior to the honoring of his advocacy that automatic citizenship should be given to undocumented children.
“When you ain’t got no choice, you should be exempt,” 21 told the Associated Press. “It’s not like I was 30, woke up, and moved over here. I’ve been here since I was like 7 or 8, probably younger than that. I didn’t know anything about visas and all that. I just knew we were moving to a new place . . . I feel like we should be exempt. I feel like we should automatically become citizens.”
21 noted that, while he’s “one of the lucky ones” who found success despite the broken system, there are “a lot of people” who aren’t as fortunate.
“Now, you grow up and got to figure it out . . . They just lose hope,” he said. “I feel like kids who were brought here at young ages, they should automatically be like ‘Yeah, you good to stay here, work and go to college.'”
21, whose widely condemned ICE arrest sparked renewed mainstream attention on the country’s currently warped view of immigration issues, recently resumed his guest features hot streak with an appearance on Jhené Aiko’s “Triggered (Freestyle)” remix with and Summer Walker.
Back in April, 21 told Billboard he was sitting on as much as two albums worth of unreleased songs. In the same interview, 21’s co-manager Justin “Meezy” Williams said that reflections on the artist’s ICE arrest and related issues would “eventually” make it into his lyrics.
