Nicki Minaj recently revealed that she is still not a U.S. citizen, despite having paid “millions” in taxes.
The rapper made this revelation during a TikTok Live session with a fan earlier this week. While trying to assist the young fan with his situation, Minaj shared that she is not officially recognized as a U.S. citizen.
Nicki arrived in the U.S. from Trinidad and Tobago as an undocumented immigrant when she was a little girl. Although she has paid millions in taxes over the years, she has yet to gain citizenship.
“I’m not a citizen of America. Isn’t that crazy?” she said.
“I was born on a beautiful island called Trinidad and Tobago,” she continued. “But I’ve been in the States for many years. You would think that with the millions of dollars I’ve paid in taxes to this country, I would have been given honorary citizenship many, many, many thousands of years ago.”
Nicki Minaj’s immigration status isn’t a secret.
The “Queen” rapper previously spoke out against the Trump administration’s controversial immigration policies at the U.S.-Mexican border in 2018. In response to the separation of migrant children from their parents, Minaj shared her own experience of coming to America illegally when she was five years old and expressed her empathy for the children.
“I came to this country as an illegal immigrant at 5 years old,” she wrote at the time. “I can’t imagine the horror of being in a strange place and having my parents taken away from me at that age. It’s terrifying. Please, stop this. Can you imagine the terror and panic these kids feel right now? Not knowing if their parents are alive, if they’ll ever see them again… 🇺🇸.”
