On February 5 of this year the video of the song was published on the YouTube platform Donaltrona sticky Dembow Interpreted by the Venezuelans Davicito, Junior Caldera and Luxormaster, who as a satire raises the voice against the raids and deportations that have marked the return of the Republican to the White House. The theme, originally composed of luxormaster and launched as a Freestyle (freestyle) on December 15, 2024, it had already gone viral on the social network Tiktok, but it was the Remix The one who finished catapulting him. “Donald Trump, I don’t want you to sports me. I just want papers and seal my passport. I promise you that I work and present myself in all the courts. I am looking for a gringa to get married here in the north,” says an excerpt from the subject that became successful and cross for its protagonists, especially for Davicito, who was arrested on April 8 by the migration authorities in Chicag Dodge County Detention facility of Wisconsin.
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His real name is Claudio David Balcane, he is 26 years old, and emigrated from Venezuela to Colombia, being a minor, by land in 2016. In 2021, he moved to Peru, where some family members resided. There he became the father of a child, but in 2023 he decided to make the long journey of millions of immigrants to the United States, crossing the Darien jungle and all Central America to Mexico. Finally, he legally entered the country through the CBP One application, on April 23, 2024.
The country had access to the artist’s testimony thanks to one of its relatives, who prefers not to reveal their identity for security reasons. “We know who you are, they told me when they stopped me,” Davicito said by telephone from the Wisconsin detention center where he is being held. His violent detention is proof of the way in which ICE officials are operating in recent weeks. Eight strongly armed men, civil dresses with bulletproof vests, approached him and pointed when he left his home in Chicago, an address that was not in any record and was found after intelligence work. Minutes before leaving his home, the rapper published a story on social networks, in which he appeared without a shirt and told his followers that he was going to the studio to record more music. Everything indicates that it could have been geolocated by the publication in networks.
Two other people met him at the time, but were ignored by the agents. They went after him. They threw him to the ground, and with his knee on the back, he was handcuffed. “I am an artist and I have not committed any crime,” he repaired in saying the Venezuelan, who thinks that his arrest has more to do with his tattoos – one of the eight points with which the Security Department is cataloging immigrants as members of the Aragua train – that with viral success, Donaltron. However, when he was transferred from Chicago to Wisconsin, ICE officials showed him the video of the song, they mocked him and threatened to be deported.
The greatest fear of the Venezuelan artist and his relatives is that he ends up being sent as so many others to El Salvador, Guantanamo or Libya. Venezuela is also not an option, because Davicito has demonstrated against the regime of Nicolás Maduro, and his human rights would not be guaranteed in case of returning.
His first time in front of a migration court was in June 2024. On that occasion, the judge recommended that he make an asylum petition, and it finished being presented at the limit of the date, just before the year of his arrival. Although his arrest coincides with the mail sent by the Trump administration asking the beneficiaries of parole Humanitarian and CBP One his immediate departure from the territory (a judge temporarily blocked the order to end these programs), his asylum case is still open, and that is what his defense will fight at the audience scheduled this May 31. Represented by the law firm Consumer Law Group of Chicago, the Venezuelan could be released on bail, but it might not have to pay it if a sponsor who is an American citizen appears, prove to know him and present a declaration of income with which he is responsible for it.
Without criminal record in their country of origin or in any in which he has lived; Davicito says that he has earned life by rapping on buses and streets, always linked to the movement undergroundthe world of graffiti and urban music. It was the social networks that gave him a platform to make himself known, and his theme dedicated to the jungle of the Darién who made him known. “I am leaving the Darién, so the jaguars eat me, I pique a mapanare or kill me the military. I go crazy for the USA … I want to buy a house, and I want to buy a McLaren,” he sings with stark humor about the American dream and the hard journey north. His lyrics include mentions of street violence and his characters. He has come to imitate the voice of a malandro (gang member) in his songs, but clearly it is musical fictions inspired by the life of the most excluded in Latin America, and the social problems that surround them.
His face is also one of the most visible of a musical movement of Venezuelans, most of the city of Maracay, which have bet in the city of Chicago to make urban music. The subject Take carein which John theis and Brayita58 also participate (currently arrested for possession of a vaper With cannabis in Florida, where it is not allowed) is one of the successes of this group, which has worked with singers like Akapellah and Lil Supa, and today is under profile. The group mixes a group of migrants with legal residence and others in an irregular situation. This context has been a tracking stone for many of its members. Just two days before his arrest, Davicito had the signing of his first musical contract scheduled.
24 hours in the same cell
On the day of his arrest, the Venezuelan artist gave his cell phone to the authorities so that they could verify their links and artistic activities. These intrigued their trips in the country so much to address musical projects, as well as their tattoos. Those who photographed to investigate if they were related to the Aragua train.
Davicito, who comes from the region where the criminal band was born, denied during the interrogation any type of belonging to it. His tattoos have been suspected since he entered the United States. His first day in the country was held and questioned about it, but an official informed him that the doubts had been clear and would receive probation to continue with his case.
This time, the conditions of his arrest have been very worse. The singer has confirmed that he remains 24 hours a day in the same cell, without seeing daylight, but maintains contact with his relatives through monitored telephone calls. He also expressed refused to sign the deportation order.
The #Feredavicito Liberation Campaign
The #Feredavicito label has circulated these five weeks through social networks to ask for the freedom of the Venezuelan artist, but the success of the subject Donaltron He also earned him the hatred of many who came to label ICE in the publication on social networks to ask for his arrest.
His partner in the song, Luxormaster, who prefers to maintain his real name and location in anonymity, has been the only one who has not been affected because Fuentes assure that Junior Caldera has already been denied the entrance. The country contacted the singer’s team to confirm the cancellation of his visa, but did not answer.
“I think I have not been affected because in the song I do not give a bad message. I do not have tattoos with which they can relate to any criminal group. I am motivating immigrants and giving the example. The song speaks with sarcasm and parody the reality that immigrants are living in this country. And so we are the Venezuelans, we take a joke to everything,” he says via telephone.
The artist, a native of Valencia (Venezuela), still cannot live on music. He thought that prosperity would come after the phenomenon of the topic on the Internet, but continues to work in construction and rapping on how hard everything has been put for immigrants in the United States. “What is happening with Davicito is extremely unfair. He is not a criminal, for having tattoos they want Donaltronand recently fell in a raid that took place in Boston. His name is Gerardo Bolívar, he is 23 years old and is a dancer, known on social networks with the avatar Almost crazy. “I am very worried about him because these cases have no visibility. He also entered the country with the CBP One program, did not do it illegally, but it seems that that is no longer worth anything,” he concludes.
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