Video: Selena Gomez cries on Trump’s approach to migrants

The actress and singer Selena Gomez broke out in tears in a video about the hard migration policy of the new US government. “All my people are attacked,” said the American with Mexican roots in a video published on Instagram, which was deleted after a short time.

“I’m so sorry. I wish I could do something, but I can’t,” she said in it. In addition, the words “I’m sorry” were to be seen next to a Mexican flag.

Why the contribution was deleted again after a short time is unclear. Gomez (32) had received a lot of criticism and ridicule in response to the video on the Internet. Among other things, some users criticized the fact that she had described migrants as a US citizen without papers as her “people”.

The new US President Donald Trump had announced an unprecedented deportation program against “criminal illegal immigrants”. Since his inauguration last week, his government has driven arrest and deportations of migrants without a residence permit, regardless of all criticism of citizens’ and human rights activists.

Gomez ‘grandparents came to the USA illegally

Gomez (“Emilia Pérez”) has already campaigned for migrants in the past. As a producer, she participated in the documentary series “Life without Papers”, published in 2019. In a contribution to the magazine “Time”, she said that her aunt and grandparents came across the border from Mexico in the 1970s.

After her Instagram video – probably from her – had been removed, Gomez wrote on Instagram: “Apparently it is wrong to show compassion with people.” This post was also removed shortly afterwards.

The man who used Trump for the supervision of the planned “mass deportation”, Tom Homan, was addressed in the interview of the broadcaster Fox News about the statements of Gomez. “If you don’t like it, you should go to the congress and change the law,” he said. “We will carry out this operation without excuse.”