Selena Gomez hits back at politician who called for her to be ‘deported’ for sympathising with migrants
Selena Gomez hits back at politician who called for her to be ‘deported’ for sympathising with migrants
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‘All my people are getting attacked,’ the singer said in a tearful video. Selena Gomez has responded to a Senate candidate after he said she should be “deported” for sympathising with Mexican migrants. The Emilia Pérez star, 32, posted an emotional video about the Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids that occurred over the weekend that saw 956 people arrested across major cities in the US over just three days as a result of President Donald Trump’s new immigration policy.
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“I just want to say that I’m so sorry. All my people are getting attacked,” the Mexican American singer cried in a now-deleted post on Instagram on Monday (January 27). “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 concluded, captioning her video, “I’m sorry” with a Mexican flag emoji. Gomez swiftly deleted the video but was met with immediate backlash from Trump’s supporters, including U.S. Senate candidate Sam Parker, who called for the singer to be removed from the country.
Both her Aunt and her paternal grandparents were undocumented for some time. However, according to Gomez’s essay, her family has since “worked hard to gain United States citizenship.”. “Deport Selena Gomez,” Parker wrote on X/Twitter, adding in a separate post: “Selena Gomez picked illegals over America b/c she’s the 3rd gen descendent of Mexican illegals who received citizenship in the ‘87 Amnesty.
