Bruce Springsteen brings 'Streets of Minneapolis' home as he launches U.S. tour with 'War'

Bruce Springsteen was in a defiant but upbeat mood as he returned Tuesday night to the “Streets of Minneapolis” to launch his latest U.S. tour.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Bruce Springsteen was in a defiant but upbeat mood as he returned Tuesday night to the “Streets of Minneapolis” to launch his latest U.S. tour, denouncing the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown in the city and opening with a not-so-veiled salvo against the war in Iran

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Springsteen kicked off his “Land of Hope & Dreams American Tour” at the packed Target Center with a show that lasted just shy of three hours, with no intermission. He previously honored the city’s residents in song for their courage in standing up against the estimated 3,000 federal officers that President Donald Trump’s administration sent in what it called its largest immigration enforcement action anywhere in the country.

“We are here in celebration and defense of our American ideals,” Springsteen said. “Democracy, our Constitution and our sacred American promise, the America that I love, the America that I’ve written about for 50 years, that’s been a beacon of hope and liberty around the world, is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent, racist, reckless, and treasonous administration.”