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A Change.org pe­ti­tion start­ed by Tris­tan Hamil­ton has called on Unit­ed States im­mi­gra­tion au­thor­i­ties to re­view the res­i­den­cy sta­tus of rap­per Nic­ki Mi­naj and con­sid­er her de­por­ta­tion to Trinidad, cit­ing what the pe­ti­tion de­scribes as harm­ful rhetoric and a re­ver­sal of po­si­tions that once aligned her with LGBTQ+ ad­vo­ca­cy.

The pe­ti­tion, which had 53,971 ver­i­fied sig­na­tures as of 3:15 pm to­day, ar­gues that Mi­naj’s re­cent words and ac­tions have left many for­mer sup­port­ers feel­ing “deeply be­trayed,” par­tic­u­lar­ly those who once viewed her as a voice of sup­port and un­der­stand­ing with­in the LGBTQ+ com­mu­ni­ty. It claims her pub­lic stance has shift­ed from ad­vo­ca­cy to pro­mot­ing what it de­scribes as out­dat­ed and harm­ful ideas.

Mi­naj, born Oni­ka Tanya Maraj on De­cem­ber, 8, 1982 in the St James dis­trict of Port of Spain, Trinidad and To­ba­go, lived there un­til mov­ing to the Unit­ed States at age five. The pe­ti­tion rais­es the point that Mi­naj is not a Unit­ed States cit­i­zen, ar­gu­ing that her im­mi­gra­tion sta­tus war­rants re­view in light of what it char­ac­teris­es as di­vi­sive pub­lic con­duct.