Cardi B had a ruthless response after White House officials tried to embarrass her for warning U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to stay away from her shows.

The back-and-forth began with banter from the “I Like It” artist’s first stop of her “Little Miss Drama” tour in Palm Desert, California, on Wednesday night. She asked if there were any Guatemalans or Mexicans in the crowd during a rendition of the famed Mexican folk song “La Cucaracha.”

Hearing a chorus of cheers, Cardi then promised to protect her fans from any trouble that may come their way.

“Bitch, if ICE comes in here, we gon’ jump they asses,” she joked. “I’ve got some bear mace in the back! They ain’t taking my fans, bitch. Let’s go.”

The “Up” rapper is an unabashed critic of President Donald Trump and his administration’s anti-immigrant policies, making her a prime target for a snarky response from Washington, D.C.

The Department of Homeland Security commented on Cardi’s remarks in a statement to TMZ, which the government amplified with an X post that said, “As long as she doesn’t drug and rob our agents, we’ll consider that an improvement over her past behavior.”

It was a snide reference to the star’s past confessions about robbing and drugging men while she was working as a stripper. In a 2019 apology on X, she called crime one of her “limited options” for survival at the time and said she now feels a “responsibility” to not “glorify” her past actions in her music.

It wasn’t long before Cardi caught wind of DHS’s catty remark and clapped back with a searing question for the White House about the scandal it just can’t seem to shake.

“If we talking about drugs let’s talk about Epstein and friends drugging underage girls to rape them,” she wrote in a Thursday X post. “Why yall don’t wanna talk about the Epstein files?”

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