Change.org petition calls for Nicki Minaj deportation

A Change.org pe­ti­tion start­ed by Tris­tan Hamil­ton has called on Unit­ed States im­mi­gra­tion au­thor­i­ties to re­view the res­i­den­cy sta­tus of rap­per Nic­ki Mi­naj and con­sid­er her de­por­ta­tion to Trinidad, cit­ing what the pe­ti­tion de­scribes as harm­ful rhetoric and a re­ver­sal of po­si­tions that once aligned her with LGBTQ+ ad­vo­ca­cy.

The pe­ti­tion, which had 53,971 ver­i­fied sig­na­tures as of 3:15 pm to­day, ar­gues that Mi­naj’s re­cent words and ac­tions have left many for­mer sup­port­ers feel­ing “deeply be­trayed,” par­tic­u­lar­ly those who once viewed her as a voice of sup­port and un­der­stand­ing with­in the LGBTQ+ com­mu­ni­ty. It claims her pub­lic stance has shift­ed from ad­vo­ca­cy to pro­mot­ing what it de­scribes as out­dat­ed and harm­ful ideas.

Mi­naj, born Oni­ka Tanya Maraj on De­cem­ber, 8, 1982 in the St James dis­trict of Port of Spain, Trinidad and To­ba­go, lived there un­til mov­ing to the Unit­ed States at age five. The pe­ti­tion rais­es the point that Mi­naj is not a Unit­ed States cit­i­zen, ar­gu­ing that her im­mi­gra­tion sta­tus war­rants re­view in light of what it char­ac­teris­es as di­vi­sive pub­lic con­duct.

Cen­tral to the com­plaint is Mi­naj’s as­ser­tion that “boys should just be boys,” a com­ment the pe­ti­tion says un­der­mines the foun­da­tions of a com­mu­ni­ty that pre­vi­ous­ly found rep­re­sen­ta­tion and sol­i­dar­i­ty in her mu­sic and pub­lic per­sona. The pe­ti­tion main­tains that such state­ments car­ry sig­nif­i­cant weight be­cause of Mi­naj’s glob­al plat­form and in­flu­ence.

The is­sue text frames the mat­ter as per­son­al for sup­port­ers who fol­lowed Mi­naj’s rise and now feel “aban­doned by her shift in val­ues,” de­scrib­ing the change as de­flat­ing and dis­il­lu­sion­ing.

Ac­cord­ing to the pe­ti­tion, de­por­ta­tion would rep­re­sent ac­count­abil­i­ty for in­flu­en­tial pub­lic fig­ures and serve as a re­minder of the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty at­tached to large plat­forms. The cam­paign urges sup­port­ers to sign in or­der to press im­mi­gra­tion au­thor­i­ties to act, po­si­tion­ing the call as part of a broad­er push for in­clu­siv­i­ty, re­spect and con­sis­ten­cy from those in the pub­lic eye.

“Once a voice for the LGBTQ+ com­mu­ni­ty, she has now flipped her stance, as­sert­ing out­dat­ed and harm­ful no­tions such as ‘boys should just be boys’,” the pe­ti­tion states.