Naturalization ceremony during the halftime break in Fiserv Forum - Milwaukee Bucks vs Memphis Grizzlies - 4/5/26.
Directed by U.S District Court Judge Brett Ludwig.
18 people took their oaths and officially became US citizens..
There truly is nothing more random than an nba halftime show in the regular season.
Its like they are trying to be as bewildering as possible
the idea of going to see a sports game in Europe and seeing something like this during halftime is hilarious, US is wild lmao
But lets not forget in all the “the usa is not ok” that this is the good and aspirational weirdness of it.
This is like immigrating to Germany in 1930. I’m not sure if they’ll still feel excitement in 5-10 years.
I will say that this was definitely intentional and because of the current political climate. It’s apparently something Herb Kohl started when he was owner and he used to be a US Senator.
Serious question, what usually happens at european halftime?
Stand in a really long line to take a piss then go grab some scran.
mostly nothing. in football people take the time to go to the bathroom, get food, discuss the match, etc.
some events will do something, i’ve seen basketball games do it, but probably because they’re copying the US/NBA system.
People tend to be quite happy being left to enjoy their time at events without constant random entertainment.
I’ve been to sporting events that had dancers for every small break and most people seemed either apathetic or actually a bit annoyed with the constant music and ‘hype’ energy.
An extremely toned down version of the NBA style HT antics, at least in the top divisions. Teams try to do some of those initiatives but the public in general cares way less so there’s no reason to go all out crazy. Plus unlike with NBA games where a sizeable percentage of people go to the game just for the spectacle/show, in European football the fans go there to watch their team. So you’d very see stuff like in every NBA game stoppage where the home team can be down 20 and you see a lot of their fans just dancing and taking part of the shenanigans.
As someone who started watching basketball regularly way after I did it with EU football, I can tell that was genuinely what messed with my head the most. If my team is getting battered in the game the last thing I’d even want to or consider is to celebrate anything lmaoooo.
And yeah, as others said people’s lack of care for it means they often just stand up and go grab some food, or just chat with the person next to them on the ground until the 2nd half starts.
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They yell racial slurs at the players, even to some that look exactly like them but because of some imaginary line on a map before the USSR dissolved they’re different.
Europe isn’t for Europeans anymore so of course lmao 😂
the idea of going to see a sports game in the US and seeing something like this during halftime is hilarious, US is wild lmao
Praise be to Allah
Never forget who shai fans voted for
What
It’s either a joke about Shais viral nickname Al-Shaida or referencing how Oklahoma is a red state that supported pedo guy who name dropped praise allah on Easter.
I must’ve been in a coma because this is the first time I’m hearing the Al-Shaida nickname lmao Al-Shaida and Haliban is crazy
In the NFL theres TuAnon, Brycis, Stroud Boys and of course the GEQBUS
Ahhh okay. Went over my head there but it makes perfect sense.
The latter yes
Which is dumb because Wisconsin voted red. Grizzlies fans…Hawks fans…Mavs, Rockets, and Spurs fans…
I could go on stereotyping and assuming, but that’s dumb.
Also, a lot of people in the Thunder sub are anti-Trump.
You know who didn’t go red? 😎
The knicks
OKC & and a good portion of the surrounding metro (Norman for instance where the University of Oklahoma (OU) is, are pretty liberal). It’s just there’s A LOT of generational dumbasses in that.
I think Oklahoma is the only state where every single county (or county equivalent) went red. Even every other red state had at least one urban county go blue. There’s a reason why Oklahoma has the stereotype it does.
West virginia is the only other one that did, not great company though.
Oh fuck off, Wisconsin is purple and Oklahoma is firmly red.
It’s because the Bucks used to be owned by a US Senator (Herb Kohl sold to the current ownership group). Senator Kohl brought it to the Bucks and it’s been a continued tradition
They low key do this every season lol
They brought out Red Panda to juggle plates from a unicycle after this.
That is pretty cool. Good for them! I guess that is one way to increase attendance…
Holy backhanded compliment Batman!
I am gonna assume you didn’t see who actually played in this game. It was a motley crew of bench players. Honestly not sure who would pay to see this game. https://www.espn.com/nba/boxscore/_/gameId/401810990
Where’s Tommy Lee?
Given the current political climate, your comment comes off as someone complaining about immigration and it being used to prop up NBA game attendance. That might not have been your intention.
Lol why’d I get so many downvotes? They literally do a naturalization ceremony halftime once a year every season for at least the last handful of seasons.
They do this every season but go off
Really?
That is pretty cool. Good for them!
I guess that is one way to increase attendance.
Believe it or not, most people don’t keep track of the halftime shows that the Milwaukee Bucks do every year.
I’m surprised ICE didn’t rush in before they could be naturalized
ICE would too. They just arrested the wife of a member of the military while the couple was on the base working on paperwork for her spousal benefits. She was brought here as a toddler, they were trying to go through the proper legal process, and now she’s being deported.
Yep. There have been countless videos/stories of ICE agents kidnapping people outside of immigration offices/hearings. People are trying to do the right thing where you’re supposed to do it and they’re being scooped up.
Not even outside of, they go right into the build and stop them prior to their hearings.
I’ve seen them arrested in the courthouse. They even wait until they are separated from their lawyer
They’re too lazy/incompetent to go after who they said they would (“hardcore” criminals) so they just go after the low hanging fruit.
Here’s a gift link to the NYT article about this incident.
She’s undocumented according to your article
There’s no “incident” to report
Both husband and wife knew what they were doing might not work.
How are people so confused or outraged about this?
This is something that every country on earth supports lol you can’t just get automatic status by getting married when you’ve had a deportation order on the books for decades
It sucks for them, but that’s the situation they’re in. They don’t get to cut the line just because he’s a citizen
When U.S. citizens marry undocumented immigrants, their spouses become eligible for legal permanent residency through marriage, and they can apply for citizenship three years after receiving their green card.Even those with a prior deportation order, often issued when they were children, are not typically detained and are able to adjust their immigration status, experts said.
Part of the issue was that she did not go to an immigration hearing when she was 22 months old which I reckon is not her fault
when she was 22 months old which I reckon is not her fault
22 months????
She’s old enough to work at that point. Old enough to be in a relationship with a Republican too.
Clearly it was her fault.
If people not having updated documents bothers you that much, I feel bad for you.
Because people dont care about facts.
Ive seen so many people i work with have to go back yo their country cause of papers and somehow you Americans want me to feel bad when someone is forced out because they didnt leave themselves?
Im not saying they didnt try and that I dont feel sorry for them but acting like they did nothing wrong is just outright stupid
Part of the issue now is that we’re sending anyone we can find anywhere including in detention centers with shitty care. This administration has been pretty fucking reckless and intentionally cruel in their methods. It’s as embarrassing as it is disgusting
Part of what has been floating around are videos from Biden and Obama. So its not just the administration, its just Trump
And then you say some dumb shit like -
Part of what has been floating around are videos from Biden and Obama. So its not just the administration, it’s just Trump
Lmfao.
It literally has. But okay
It literally has not.
Y’all really do live in a completely different reality from everyone else 😂
Yeah it’s trump - look at the racist ass rhetoric he puts up and says. I don’t remember Biden saying immigrants are eating pets or posting a video of minorities at the mall as if that’s the problem.
Previous administrations did have issues. Previous administrations weren’t wrongly detaining the likes of people likes of Abrego Garcia and sending him out of the country to fucking El Salvador with no trial or hearing here. Then doubling down on on it by showing bullshit MS13 tattoos on him. Obama/Biden weren’t going to hearings to detain people. There was a sense of not breaking up families. .they were not focused on going to Home Depot to report people working with no criminal record. They weren’t training ICE hires with next to no background check for 47 days as a tribute to the cult leader. This administration doesn’t give a flying fuck about people or the law. The raid on immigrants has been bad for the economy as well.
Which US citizens did ICE kill in the street when Biden and Obama were in office?
And often ICE is the one breaking the law. They’ve had to release people over and over again.
The admin sets the arrest quotas high to radicalize ICE agents into breaking the law. They want loyalty, not legality.
Theres a reason ICE has been camping immigration meetings and hearings, they arrest someone doing things the right way, then tell them they should have done it the right way
suck 1000 dicks, build 1 bridge, shocked you aren’t known as a bridge builder situation.
Boy nothing would make me want to continue serving my dumbshit country more than that… /s
Didn’t need to, they snatched them after.
It was supposed to be 20 but ICE hit the locker room beforehand
Shit man they’d do it after the ceremony too…
They wouldn’t let people being citizens stop them.
You’re so funny
I say why the fuck not, it’s a feel good event/ show for both newly citizens and fans. For some becoming a citizen is a big deal and it allows it to be celebrated.
When US optimism is at an all time low, NBA publicizes ceremonies like this to raise morale.
“Your commissioner has abandoned you, nephew”
Well not like there was anything else to do at that game tbh
They do this every year, and it’s awesome. Throughout the game they show little videos highlighting the people’s stories, where they came from, why they want to be citizens, how they are impacting the community, etc.
God bless immigrants and fuck ICE.
Fuck ICE.
Yeah, some are calling it out as weird etc. but in the context of what’s going on in the country, it’s great. Fuck ICE.
Reminder that whenever a conservative dipshit says they support “legal immigration,” the correct response is to point out that they then support Democrat immigration policy. Republicans are anti-immigrant of any kind and willfully ignore due process and the law so that they can vilify immigrants in order to pick their constituents’ pockets. Democrats support legal pathways to citizenship, they also just believe people from other countries should be treated as human beings.
A big ol’ Fuck ICE from your neighbors out west
Fuck ICE and fuck the fascists
Trump hating every second of it probably
He’s been crashing out hard lately
It’s ok the war will be over soon… or not. … or those Europeans won’t help us… or we never asked our didn’t need them… but also they said no…. and the reason for all this is {random thing for today}
He’s been “delaying” a lot of them:
https://www.nwpb.org/local/2026-02-06/citizenship-oath-ceremonies-canceled-for-several-in-north-central-washington
Trump is fine with white. He just hates non white. Look his wife for example. Ultimate racism machine
What I find extra funny is that if his administration gets exact what they want on birthright citizenship then Donald himself will go to prison/be deported because he wouldn’t be considered an American citizen and would be holding office illegally.
I agree that it’s stupid but lets also not just claim things that aren’t true, if birthright citizenship gets overturned, everyone who was made a citizen via birthright citizenship, wouldn’t instantly lose citizenship
If its overturned then anyone the Republicans don’t like would instantly lose citizenship at their discretion.
Of course, it should be understood I am saying this in regards to how they are skewing this.
Not in regards to how I personally understand it or how the general populace - not looking to attack people’s rights - understand it.
I think Trump’s specific argument wouldn’t apply to himself (surprise, surprise) because his father’s father (who emigrated from Germany) was stripped of his foreign citizenship prior to the Trump’s father’s birth on US soil.
What I do think all this may be about is that if Trump’s argument wins, it could strip Obama of his natural-born citizenship. Obama’s mother did not meet the legal requirements in place at the time to transmit citizenship at birth to her child, so Obama is a citizen at birth because he was born in Hawaii. I have no doubt that Trump is champing at the bit to retroactively legitimize his birther nonsense.
Of course there’s always some bummy loophole for that sack of lard
Both of his parents are immigrants.
(Actually it seems his father’s parents were both immigrants, his grandfather and father share the same name - along with Donald himself saying his father was an immigrant - so I got it mixed up. His mother is indeed an immigrant however.)
I’m sure there will be someone - god forbid this supremacy ruling passes - that’ll be in a similar situation as him and still be removed. They’re idiotic and hypocritical like that.
Nah why one of Jokic brothers tryna naturalize on the sneak? Lmaooo
Waiting for athletes to tell me why this is unrighteousness.
LeLegal
LeCendents will love LeCertificate
Wow this is amazing!!!!
I respect this
Throughout all the bullshit of today and the fucked shit of the past, this is the true promise and beauty of America. No other place in the world like it, and it’s ours to protect and improve.
I remember taking this oath and how proud I was, this bought a tear to my eye.
I just took my oath last month and was surprised at how emotional it got even just being there by myself.
It’s not the best club but it’s a damn fine club. Congrats and Welcome!!!
This is so weird for a basketball game wtf
Is it? I think it is weird how we have to perform the national anthem before each game. So i think both are within the same realm of relevance towards each other.
Less weird than proposals tbh.
So strange, am liberal, too
Pretty cool. Has a very old school feeling to it, like a public square type of thing. People giving their oaths in front of everyone.
Very cool speech from the judge, this makes me happy. Shout out Bucks for doing something dope (and random lol)
Edit: spelling
can anyone please tell me how to get the video? it was actually my naturalization ceremony. ik it was really random but a really cool gesture.
The video is hosted on streamable. Click the streamable link to see it there. Then, copy that link.
Paste the link into a website like this one which takes streamable links and converts them to downloadable files: https://streamabledl.com
If you can’t figure it out let me know. Also, congrats!
In a very hard time for immigrants, I hope taking the oath in front of thousands of cheering Americans will make them feel a little more welcome
This is awesome to see my parents were naturalized in the 80s so congrats to our new 18 citizens in Milwaukee!!!
They did this in 2024 I remember. Do they do it every year?
This rules!!! I encourage everyone to go to a naturalization ceremony once in their life. It’s always a beautiful time that reminds you of the best of the US!
Congrats to all of these people and as always fuck ICE
They not gone like that
If I was one of those people and a Memphis fan I’d be so stoked. Super cool moment
If you ever have the chance to go to a ceremony, please go. It was one of my favorite experiences I’ve ever had. A friend of mine got their citizenship and there was so many happy people.
I think this is great. It’s random as hell for sure. But you got to show so many different people getting citizenship.
That would be cool af to be part of
Hell yeah, fuck ICE
This is awesome man! This makes me feel good to be an American. Also fuck ICE always
Then I lCE was waiting outside? Until we get rid of this regime, I wouldn’t recommend ANYONE become a citizen here. Just make yourselves targets.
Random af but also love this
Hell nah if I became a country’s new citizen and they played me out to Congratulations by Post Malone, I’d revoke my own citizenship.
Becoming a US citizen rn for any reason other than absolute necessity is an insane choice.
That’s some American shit
Fitting to do it in a game featuring America’s two favorite cities.
This is the most American thing I have seen in a while.
This is actually cool as fuck, that rocks.
hilariously the 2 cities lebron doesn’t like
Happy to see it. Congrats on becoming citizens! Much love all our immigrant brothers and sisters. They deserve nothing but the best.
Wholesome AF. Love this. Anytime i see such a ceremony, I imagine how much work it takes to get there. Proud of them. Welcome.
It’s taking a really soft anti-ice stance. That’s it.
16 of them were Giannis bros.
Don’t you need witnesses for this sort of thing? Might want to do it somewhere there are other people
Americans will turn anything into entertainment
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Way less weird than OKC doing group prayers with the whole arena
I’ve seen it before, it’s like telling people to vote, you can interpret it as a political message but it’s more so just celebrating people who went through the long and tedious process
Me and the OP never seen it and I been too a lot of games. It seems nice just unusual i didn’t know if this is new as the politics of immigration are different now
Guess that’s one way ICE isn’t getting people. Love this!
This is bizzare on so many levels
Explain 1
How is it any more bizarre than performing the national anthem before every sporting event?
It really is. Am liberal
This is cool but what does this have to do with the nba/bucks?
it happened during an NBA, specifically Bucks game
hope this helps!
Halftime show clips get posted in this subreddit pretty frequently.
What happened to the game I love
u bum
Fuck off you Nazi dweeb
Good one 👍
What’s entertaining about a court proceeding
from outsider PoV, Sometimes ( Recently i would say Most of the time ) you dont make sense, and i m not sure if it a show, reality , a simulation, or just the remake of Idiocracy.
Okay. Well, have a nice day.
America is just insane, but the people there are so accustom to it this is barely even eyebrow raising
Why would it be? America is literally a country of immigrants? Did you watch this video? Fool