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28th January 2025
09:30am GMT
Selena Gomez has faced backlash from Conservative commentators after she posted a video, breaking down in tears as she spoke out against Donald Trump's plan to deport illegal immigrants from America.
Shortly after he became president for the second time, Trump declared a national emergency on the US-Mexico border saying he would dispatch troops there and resume a policy forcing asylum-seeking migrants to wait in Mexico for their US court hearings.
Gomez, 32, sobbed to the camera as she seemed to reference the US President’s plans to crack down and block “illegal aliens” entering the US across the southern border.
In a now deleted Instagram video, the Emilia Perez star said: "I just wanted to say that I am so sorry. All my people are getting attacked - and children."
Gomez, who has Mexican heritage continued: "They don't understand. I'm so sorry. I wish I could do something but I can't. I don't know what to do. I'll try everything I promise."
Trump’s border czar Tom Homan issued a scathing response to Gomez's video.
He told Fox News: "If they don't like it, then go to Congress and change the law. We're going to do this operation without apology.
"We're gonna make our community safer... It is all for the good of this nation. And we're gonna keep going. No apologies. We're moving forward."
After she was accused of crying 'crocodile tears' and labelled 'ungrateful' by some critics, Gomez posted a follow-up message which read: "Apparently it’s not OK to show empathy for people."
This has since been deleted.
Trump took office last week, promising massive deportations of migrants who were in the US illegally. But in the days since there has not been a 'substantial' increase in deportees received by Mexico, the country’s President said on Monday.
Claudia Sheinbaum said in her daily morning press conference that Mexico had accepted more than 4,000 deportees, of which a 'large majority' were Mexican.
Meanwhile, Trump hit Colombia with 25 per cent tariffs after the country refused US flights deporting migrants.
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