LISTEN: Bruce Springsteen releases protest song honouring Minneapolis shooting victims

The separate, fatal shootings of two Minneapolis residents amid the crackdown by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has sent shockwaves throughout the world.

Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old ICU nurse, was shot and killed on a city street on 26 January, less than three weeks after Renee Good, also 37, was shot in her car.

Best-selling artist Bruce 'The Boss' Springsteen has now released an anti-ICE song in response to what he termed the "state terror" being visited on the Minnesota city.

"It’s dedicated to the people of Minneapolis, our innocent immigrant neighbors and in memory of Alex Pretti and Renee Good", Springsteen wrote in a social media post.

Streets Of Minneapolis describes the federal immigration agents as “King Trump’s private army from the DHS (US Department of Homeland Security)".

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Springsteen's protest song soon reached the top of the iTunes Top Songs chart, the platform’s ranking of the bestselling individual tracks in US, reports Forbes.

The rocker has repeatedly spoken out Donald Trump, starting even before he won his first term as US President.

Click on the audio link below to listen to Streets of Minneapolis: