Nicki Minaj Previously Said She Came to U.S. Illegally in Resurfaced Post Amid Trump Support

Nicki Minaj recently made an appearance at a Turning Point USA event with Erika Kirk, and caused a stir online for her apparent support of Donald Trump‘s administration as of late.

But in a still-published post on social media, Nicki spoke out about coming to this country illegally when she was a child, which is entirely at odds with Trump‘s intense anti-immigration agenda amid violent ICE raids.

Nicki also called out Don Lemon‘s recent coverage of ICE protests in Minnesota.

She also just supported Katie Miller, the wife of White House Homeland Security advisor Stephen Miller, who promoted the SAVE Act, which would require citizenship documentation to register to vote.

But she had very different views just a few years ago.

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“I came to this country as an illegal immigrant @ 5 years old. I can’t imagine the horror of being in a strange place & having my parents stripped away from me at the age of 5,” she wrote in 2018, during Trump‘s first term as President of the United States.

“This is so scary to me. Please stop this. Can you try to imagine the terror & panic these kids feel right now?”

The post features a photo of kids on mats in a large cage.

Back in 2024, she’s stated that she is not a U.S. citizen on a TikTok Live.

“I was born on a beautiful island called Trinidad and Tobago. But I’ve been in the States for many years. You would think that with the millions of dollars that I’ve paid in taxes to this country that I would have been given an honorary citizenship many, many, many thousands of years ago,” she said.

Find out what Don Lemon said back to Nicki Minaj after she came after him.