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Shakira and J. Lo shut down the 2020 Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday on Fox, and fans are praising the subtle but powerful statements they made on Puerto Rico and U.S. immigration policy.

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00:00Shakira and JLo shut down the 2020 Super Bowl halftime show on Sunday on Fox, and fans

00:05are praising the subtle but powerful statements they made on Puerto Rico and U.S. immigration

00:10policy.

00:11The 15-minute performance saw the co-headliners perform their greatest hits, but it's a sequence

00:15of moments toward the end of the show that caught some viewers' eyes.

00:19In both a direct call to her Puerto Rican heritage and what some believe is a response

00:23to President Donald Trump's child immigration policies, Jennifer Lopez brought her daughter

00:27out to perform a moving snippet of her single, Let's Get Loud.

00:31Behind her daughter were a group of children, all holding hands and dressed in white outfits,

00:36featuring sparkling American flags on the tops.

00:38Around the young singer were other children, also dressed in white and sitting in what some

00:42have interpreted as cages of light.

00:45A moment later, JLo draped herself in a feathered Puerto Rican flag, while delivering a rendition

00:49of Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A.

00:52Shakira and JLo's performance marked the first time two Latinas have ever headlined the halftime

00:56show.

00:57Singer and songwriter Shakira is a Columbia-born Latin pop artist, while multi-genre American

01:02singer, actress and dancer Jennifer Lopez was born and raised in the Bronx by Puerto

01:06Rican parents.

01:08One user tweeted,

01:09"...born in the U.S.A. JLo just stuck in political statement on immigration."

01:13Another tweeted,

01:14"...props to JLo, Shakira and or the choreographer for the necessary statement with Latino children

01:19in cages singing Born in the U.S.A."

01:21And another wrote,

01:22"...replaying the halftime show Tears. JLo and Shakira brought the children in cages

01:26on stage.

01:27Then JLo says Latinos, let's get loud, as Emmy sings Born in the U.S.A. with the fence

01:32in the background.

01:33Powerful statement."

01:34For more on this story, head to THR.com.

01:37Until next time, for The Hollywood Reporter News, I'm Tiffany Taylor.

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