Country singer Zach Bryan riles fans by criticizing ICE raids in song snippet

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00:00Ice is gonna come, bust down your door, trying to build a house, no one builds no more.

00:06Some fans of country music singer Zach Bryan are calling it quits on the artist

00:10after he posted a snippet of a song on his Instagram criticizing ice raids.

00:18Bryan's snippet comes as ice raids continue to pick up across the country

00:22with all eyes on cities like Chicago and Portland where protests and confrontations have escalated.

00:28Toward the end of the snippet, Bryan also alludes to the fading of the red, white, and blue.

00:35Comments have since been turned off on the post, but that didn't stop fans from sounding off under

00:40some of his other posts where comments were still open. One user wrote,

00:45just another liberal tool like Bruce Springsteen. And another said, why in the world would you alienate

00:51over half of the country and attack a country and veterans that gave you all the entitlement

00:56and freedom you have? We can help you pack and move to Canada. The 29-year-old singer is a Navy

01:02veteran and even recorded his first two albums while still serving. While many fans say they're

01:09done listening, others are thanking Bryan for using his platform to speak up. Zach Bryan joins a small

01:15but growing list of country artists using their music or platforms to speak out on political issues

01:21despite backlash. Others include Maren Morris and Taylor Swift, who did begin her career in country.

01:28But Bryan's controversial snippet dropped just days after he broke a record previously held by George

01:34Strait for the largest ticketed concert in history. I'm Kennedy Felton for Strait Arrow News.

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