Grupo Frontera Addresses Backlash Over Alleged Donald Trump Enhance

Grupo Frontera is addressing the backlash following allegations of supporting Donald Trump.

On Friday (Feb. 7), the Mexican-American band shared a remark on their Instagram Tale, making it transparent that they don’t align with any U.S. political birthday celebration.

“We wish to explain that Grupo Frontera has NO association now not alliance with any political birthday celebration that’s in opposition to immigrants and the Latino group,” Grupo Frontera wrote in Spanish. “Like a lot of you, our households and [group] participants have fought and struggled for a greater long term, and we can all the time take our other folks’s facet, protecting our roots and values.”

The Texas-based Música Mexicana band added, “It’s essential you already know that the evaluations of our family and friends don’t constitute Grupo Frontera. We’re immigrants, we’re from the border, and Grupo Frontera will all the time be by means of and for the folks.”

Grupo Frontera — which incorporates participants Adelaido Solís III, Juan Javier Cantú, Julián Peña, Alberto Acosta, Carlos Guerrero and Brian Ortega — got here beneath hearth after a viral video confirmed the grandmother of a band member celebrating Trump’s victory within the 2024 presidential election, consistent with The Latin Occasions.

As lovers started to react to the viral clip, Grupo Frontera remained in large part silent on social media.

The talk coincided with Trump’s promise to start large-scale deportations when re-elected, a transfer that will closely affect Latinos.

“i can now not fortify grupo frontera as a result of, how are you balloting for Trump whilst being latino? thoughts you I reside of their surrounding generation and it’s closely latino populated too like???” one fan wrote on X.

Consistent with the Latin Occasions, different quite a lot of social media responses incorporated: “Make song in English now,” “By no means come again to Mexico,” “Latinos are those who concentrate for your song, and also you’ve allow us to down,” “This sort of betrayal comes at a prime value” and “We must cancel all of them.”

Artists comparable to Residente, Selena Gomez, Lupillo Rivera, Becky G, Chiquis and Ángela Aguilar have spoken out in opposition to the deportations.

Grupo Frontera might be functioning at Billboard THE STAGE all the way through SXSW in Austin on March 14.