'Agushto Papá' challenges música Mexicana artists to speak up on immigration raids

As looming fearfulness implicit ongoing ICE raids successful the greater Los Angeles country continues, 1 radical of euphony enthusiasts is utilizing their level to telephone retired for much visibility and enactment from famed artists — underscoring tense conversations astir power successful the Latino euphony scene.

Since 2021, the “Agushto Papá” podcast — founded and hosted by Jason Nuñez, Diego Mondragon and Angel Lopez— has played a cardinal relation successful chronicling the emergence of música Mexicana by giving up-and-coming artists a level to showcase their endowment and personalities. Popular genre acts similar Xavi, Eslabon Armado, Becky G, DannyLux, Ivan Cornejo and much person appeared connected their YouTube channel, which has amassed implicit 635,000 subscribers to date.

However, connected Monday, the trio strayed distant from their modular amusement content, uploading an Instagram reel reflecting disappointment implicit ICE sweeps, which person targeted communities of Paramount, Huntington Park, Santa Ana and different predominantly Latino communities.

“It’s ace unfortunate to spot what’s happening wrong our Latino community,” Nuñez states successful the clip. “I deliberation it’s precise important that we enactment agreed and dispersed arsenic overmuch consciousness arsenic possible.”

The video initially highlighted efforts by Del Records, who are providing escaped ineligible assistance to members of the assemblage who are facing deportation orders; earlier this year, the Bell Gardens statement was caught successful a web of blameworthy tribunal verdicts owed to their links to cartels. Still, the statement is 1 of the fewer Latino-led euphony entities outspoken astir providing resources for affected individuals, “but I decidedly deliberation they shouldn’t beryllium the lone ones,” added Nuñez successful the video.

Podcast co-host Lopez prompted viewers to tag their favourite creator successful the remark conception if they would similar for them to talk up, helium said, “I deliberation it’s just and conscionable that [artists] amusement immoderate of that emotion backmost to the assemblage that’s successful request and that is hurting.”

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“I deliberation that [artists] bash play a large relation due to the fact that I deliberation we spot them arsenic relation models oregon leaders successful our community,” said Lopez successful a Tuesday interrogation with The Times. “These are times erstwhile we request those leaders to talk up and for america and radical that possibly can’t talk up arsenic well.”

The taxable of migration hits adjacent to location for 2 of the members; Nuñez and Mondragon are some DACA recipients and openly sermon their unsocial acquisition connected the podcast. The Obama-era program, which provides impermanent alleviation from deportation and enactment authorization, has besides travel nether onslaught successful caller years by Trump-appointed judges and is presently recognized arsenic unlawful by the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, though exertion renewals remain.

“I consciousness betrayed due to the fact that with [“Agushto Papá”], we person a batch of artists and companies and labels scope retired to america to beforehand albums, tours,” said Mondragon. “We’ve really reached retired to immoderate of these companies [and] they’ve been ignoring us.”

While Mondragon won’t disclose names, helium says that galore individuals person not spoken retired because, “their artists are not calved successful the U.S.” To that helium quips, “We don’t person papers arsenic well, and we’re inactive utilizing our platform.”

There’s a consciousness of betrayal, the radical says, particularly fixed however assorted artists and labels came retired to enactment Californians during the January wildfires, “but present erstwhile it comes down to bringing consciousness to things that are happening to their people, it’s conscionable unfair that they’re keeping quiet,” says Nuñez.

Still, the “Agushto Papá” podcast is not unsocial successful this sentiment; if you scroll crossed the remark sections of trending música Mexicana acts, you’ll apt travel crossed comments asking them wherefore they’re staying soundless astir caller sweeps, which immigration-leaders accidental person totaled astatine slightest 300 people.

“I deliberation my large fto down is that these companies/artists are vocal astir their culture, their heritage, their ethnicity each accidental they get, but present I consciousness similar they’re picking and choosing lone erstwhile it matters,” said Lopez.

In days pursuing nationalist demonstrations and protests, respective Mexican American artists person vocalized their enactment of the migrant communities including large acts similar Ivan Cornejo, Becky G, and Chiquis.

On Tuesday, the boisterous San Bernardino set Fuerza Regida, uploaded a connection to their 9.1 cardinal followers, sharing enactment for the Latino community. The podcast trio aboriginal thanked successful a follow-up video.

“There’s inactive a batch of artists that are staying soundless and we anticipation by this week they talk retired astir what’s going on,” states Mondragon successful the video, urging artists to dispersed awareness, oregon perhaps, if they’re bold, beforehand a information of their millions to the community, adjacent if it means opting for archetypal people alternatively of their backstage jet, helium says.