Michael Stewart/WireImage“I came to this country as an illegal immigrant @ 5 years old.”
That’s how Nicki Minaj begins a post in which she weighs in on the Trump administration’s policy of separating immigrant children from their families.
Nicki, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago but moved when she was five to The Bronx, New York to live with her mother, writes on her Instagram: “I can’t imagine the horror of being in a strange place & having my parents stripped away from me at the age of 5. This is so scary to me.”
Nicki goes on: “Please stop this. Can you try to imagine the terror & panic these kids feel right now? Not knowing if their parents are dead or alive, if they’ll ever see them again…” She ends her post with an American flag emoji.
In the face of widespread, escalating backlash, President Donald Trump on Wednesday afternoon signed an executive order he said would end his administration’s policy of separating immigrant families from their children at the U.S. border.
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