Kacey Musgraves Triggers MAGA Backlash With Onstage Immigrant Aid Plea

Country star Kacey Musgraves used her Chicago stop on the Middle of Nowhere tour to ask fans to donate to the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, saying it was not political and that children affected by deportations need help; the plea drew sharp MAGA backlash online, illustrating the culture-war friction around immigration amid a period of high ICE arrests.