Selena Gomez sobs about ICE in video that has resurfaced amid Trump’s immigration crackdowns
A video of Selena Gomez breaking down in tears over deportations has resurfaced as fears continue to grow amid immigration crackdowns.
Last January, the Only Murders in the Building star sobbed while speaking about the deportation of Mexican people in a video shared to her Instagram Story.
In the clip, the actress, now 33, cried as she reacted to President Donald Trump’s threat of mass deportations of all undocumented immigrants in America.
‘All my people are getting attacked, 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,’ she said in the video.
The Rare Beauty founder captioned the post: ‘I’m sorry [Mexican flag emoji].’
Gomez’s post was mercilessly mocked on social media at the time with many branding her as ‘shallow’ and ‘narcissistic’. Others also slammed for her for not using her own reported net worth of $1.3 billion to take action.
In the aftermath, she quickly deleted the post, sharing a message a short time later which read: ‘Apparently it’s not ok to show empathy for people.’
But now, the video has been reposted on Reddit, where users were horrified by how the video was received at the time amid renewed concern about the current political climate.
A video of Selena Gomez breaking down in tears over deportations has resurfaced as fears continue to grow amid immigration crackdowns
‘Selena Gomez made a video calling out ICE a year ago, and everyone laughed and turned it into a meme,’ the Reddit post read, with viewers flooding the comments section with their own thoughts on the matter.
One recalled: ‘Chronically online weirdos criticized her for “being cringe,” and Republicans threatened her with deportation.’
They added: ‘In 2019, she also produced a Netflix documentary Living Undocumented showing the difficult lives of eight illegal family immigrants with children were living under Trump’s first administration.’
‘It’s clear that Selena was right about everything. I’ve always been on her side. She’s suffered and knows what suffering means,’ one user shared to Reddit.
‘And so many of us know exactly how she felt because we have had our loved ones laugh in our faces, tell us we are catastrophizing, tell us to stop falling for click bait, don’t be so dramatic, stop falling for conspiracy theories, and on and on and on… all the time knowing deep down within your core that you are not wrong or being dramatic and completely justified in freaking the f**k out,’ wrote someone else.
‘I feel for celebs in these positions. If they don’t speak up, people yell that they’re complicit. If they do speak up, people mock them as insincere. They can’t win,’ sympathized another fan.
‘Selena clearly felt compassion for people being targeted, and I’m glad she spoke up. What is the point of having a platform that large if you don’t use it to say something important?’ they pointed out.
The video sparked a fierce backlash from Republicans and MAGA supporters at the time, including US Senate candidate Sam Parker, who called for the singer to be deported in the wake of her meltdown.
In the clip, the actress, now 33, cried as she reacted to President Donald Trump’s threat of mass deportations of all undocumented immigrants in America
Gomez’s post was mercilessly mocked on social media at the time with many branding her as ‘shallow’ and ‘narcissistic’
The White House and Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt mocked the actress for her video too, posting a scathing response of their own on social media
The White House mocked the actress for her video too, posting a scathing response of their own on social media.
Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt shared a clip showing family members of people who were allegedly killed by convicted undocumented migrants, tagging Gomez in the video.
In one video, Tammy Nobles, the mother of Kathy Hamilton, who was killed and raped in a Maryland mobile home by an El Salvadorian man, Walter Javier Martinez, said to Gomez, ‘You don’t know who you’re crying for.’
She continued: ‘What about our children who were brutally murdered, and raped and beat to death and left on the floor by these illegal immigrants?’
A former Miss California and runner-up Miss USA, Carrie Prejean Boller,, also slammed Gomez for her video, demanding that she invite deported immigrants into her own home.
‘Hey Selena Gomez, how about you call all of “your people” you’re crying about being deported and invite them to stay at your mansion behind your big walls and gates until they leave?’ Boller wrote.
‘Have them over for dinner, feed them, bathe them, let them sleep in your home, pay for their schooling and medical bills,’ she continued. ‘You could have helped them and you have not and will not.’
Trump’s immigration crackdown plunged into yet another scandal on Saturday when ICE agents shot dead American citizen Alex Pretti, a 37-year-old nurse, in Minneapolis.
It came amid weeks of riots in Minneapolis following the killing of anti-ICE protester Renee Good, a 37-year-old mother of three.
Trump, 79, has appeared to have distanced himself from the shooting and is now deploying his border czar Tom Homan to Minneapolis.
Trump said Homan will ‘report directly to me,’ in an apparent blow to Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem after she lied about Pretti brandishing at gun at ICE agents, with security footage showing guns fired while he was weaponless.
