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Selena Gomez posted an emotional video on Instagram where she was crying over the deportation of undocumented immigrants.
She expressed her sorrow and frustration, saying,
“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.” However, she faced backlash and criticism, particularly from conservative commentators, which led her to delete the video.
Conservative commentator Tomi Lahren was particularly vocal in her criticism of Selena Gomez.
She posted a video on X (formerly Twitter) where she called Gomez a “certified moron” and criticized her for defending what she referred to as “criminal aliens, rapists, and murderers.”
Lahren’s comments were harsh, stating that Gomez’s emotional response was ill-informed and that celebrities like her should not be taken seriously when it comes to political advice.
Many advocates in the comment section as this saga continues also argued that deportation is one thing, but when it is accompanied by hate, racism, and white supremacy ideology mixed with shock and awe, it is another thing.
To cry over racist deportation is an emotional thing one should cry about, especially if fathers are being arrested at their workplaces who have come to America to survive, trying to put food on the table for their kids, and are put in detention with no way of seeing their children or saying goodbye to their family.
In this case, an emotional person is expected to cry, as Selena Gomez has done, argued many advocates.
In fact, according to the latest data released, many who have been arrested were picked up at places like fish markets and other places of work that hire foreigners in most of the jobs that regular Americans won’t do.
Another statistic shows that the majority of those arrested are not violent criminals as Trump has portrayed but are arrested in workplaces due to lack of documentation, doing various jobs that regular Americans won’t do.
According to reports and statistics from El Paso Media Report, less than 4% of undocumented immigrants have a criminal record, and almost eight out of 10 have been in the United States for more than five years.
Most deportations involve individuals who are present in the country without proper documentation, such as those who have overstayed their visas or entered the country illegally.
While there are cases of deportations involving individuals with criminal convictions, these are a smaller percentage compared to those deported for immigration violations.
Images @ Selena Gomez on I.G.
El País Media Report. Data | Who are the more than 11 million migrants Trump plans to deport? | U.S. | EL PAÍS English
Does she realize the people who have been arrested and deported so far are all criminal aliens? Many of them rapists and murderers? Pretty sick to cry that they have to leave… That’s what happens when you’re an ill informed moron celebrity pic.twitter.com/KeQGt8Wahx
— Tomi Lahren (@TomiLahren) January 27, 2025
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