On Monday, Selena Gomez posted, and quickly deleted, a video of herself emotionally reacting to the immigration enforcement sweeps launched by the Trump administration.
“I just want to say that I’m so sorry. All my people are getting attacked,” Gomez, who is Mexican-American, said through tears. “The children. I 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.”
“I’m sorry,” Gomez added to the bottom corner of the video, accompanied by an emoji of the Mexican flag.
After the first video was posted, Gomez shared another post, this time to her Instagram story, writing “apparently it’s not ok to show empathy for people.” That post has also been deleted.
While Gomez has not further addressed her statements, since deleting the video and following post, later that same day border czar Tom Homan responded to Gomez’s video during an interview with Fox News.
Discussing Selena’s concerns with Sean Hannity, Homan questioned Selena as to why she wasn’t crying for those who have died from fentanyl brought into the US across the southern border.
“I‘ve met with hundreds of Angel moms and dads who are separated from their children because they buried them because they were killed by illegal aliens," Homan said.
Homan also questioned why Gomez wasn’t crying for children who had been illegally smuggled into the US only to be killed or sex trafficked. "We got a half a million children who were sex trafficked into this country, separated from their families, put in the hands of criminal cartels to be smuggled into the country. This administration can't find over 300,000. Where's the tears for them?,” Homan said, referencing what CNN reports to be false claims that Trump has previously pushed, that grossly distorts federal statistics.
Over the weekend, ICE immigration raids took place in cities like Newark, Miami, Austin, and Chicago. Immigration actions were also reported in California, Texas, Georgia, Colorado, Puerto Rico and the US Virgin Islands, according to Homeland Security and the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Multiple agencies were involved in the apprehensions, including ICE and officials from several Justice Department agencies, targeting what they said are public safety and national security threats.
According to ICE’s own statistics, 956 arrests were made on Sunday alone, and more than 1,100 arrests on Monday as President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown moves into its second week.