Dropkick Murphys release protest single ‘Citizen I.C.E’

The Dropkick Murphys and fellow Boston band Haywire 617 have released a new collaborative single, ‘Citizen I.C.E’, criticising the operations of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (I.C.E.) in the US.

The song follows weeks of I.C.E.’s occupation of Minneapolis, and the I.C.E. killings of Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti.

‘Citizen I.C.E.’ is a reworking of the Dropkick Murphys 2005 song ‘Citizen C.I.A.’ The song derides I.C.E.’s agents and actions, and the administration that set them.

“Calling all Americans of below-average intelligence/Power hungry scumbags, apply today”, the song opens. “Come celebrate dictatorships and bolster the regime/While abusing helpless immigrants, a bully's wet dream/You've joined the traitor's ranks to play the hand of God/In a scumbag grifters kidnapping squad/Citizen I.C.E”.

On January 8, the day after Good was killed, the band posted a video of ICE agents killing Good with their song playing in the background. “REST IN PEACE RENEE GOOD,” the band captioned the post. “Your family is in our prayers. 🧊 may you rot in 🔥.”

The band have been vocal critics of the Trump administration in the past. In 2024, as President Trump was running for re-election, frontman Ken Casey criticised his “fascist ideolog[y]” and lack of “decency, kindness and humanity.”

‘Citizen I.C.E.’ comes just before the release of the Dropkick Murphys’ next album, New England Forever, a split album with Haywire 617, which will be released this spring.