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As promised deportations of illegals got underway across Donald Trump’s America, actress and singer Selena Gomez did what progressive women do so often that it’s indicative of a sort of mass hysteria: she posted to social media a short video of her tearful breakdown over basic immigration law being enforced.
Over the first weekend after Trump’s ascension to the Presidency, federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and their partners got underway nationwide roundups of more than 1,200 illegal immigrants who were charged or convicted with committing crimes on American soil. Trump reportedly wants to average 1,200 deportations a day.
A Department of Homeland Security official revealed last week that the Department of Justice has given U.S. Marshals Service, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and other federal agencies the authority to investigate and apprehend illegal aliens.
“Mobilizing these law enforcement officials will help fulfill President Trump’s promise to the American people to carry out mass deportations,” the DHS spokesperson said. “For decades, efforts to find and apprehend illegal aliens have not been given proper resources. This is a major step in fixing that problem.”
To ordinary Americans, this seems like a positive first step forward in terms of fixing our sieve of a southern border: removing “the worst first”: felons who are here illegally. But progressive elites like Selena Gomez find the enforcement of immigration law cruel and unconscionable.
In response to the Trump administration taking action to remove criminal foreign elements, the American-born star of the overhyped (because it features the first trans Oscar nominee) French musical Emilia Pérez posted a video for her 422 million Instagram followers. In it she sobbed an apology to those here illegally along with the caption “I’m sorry” and a Mexican flag emoji.
Selena Gomez just posted a video crying about deportations, but deleted it after outrage from fans…. pic.twitter.com/xRTO8x4ND5
— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) January 27, 2025
“All my people are getting attacked, the children. I don’t understand,” she barely managed to say while wiping away tears. “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.”
The video was so widely mocked across social media that she deleted the post shortly afterward. Talk show host Piers Morgan probably said it best when he wrote, “Posting yourself weeping over illegal immigrant criminals being deported is a new level of absurd celebrity narcissism.”
Illegal immigration is near and dear to Gomez’s heart. In a 2019 Time Magazine interview, she spoke about how it shaped her own family’s story. “In the 1970s, my aunt crossed the border from Mexico to the United States hidden in the back of a truck,” she said. “My grandparents followed, and my father was born in Texas soon after. In 1992, I was born a U.S. citizen thanks to their bravery and sacrifice.”
She even executive produced a Netflix documentary series about illegals called Living Undocumented. She told Time,
Undocumented immigration is an issue I think about every day, and I never forget how blessed I am to have been born in this country thanks to my family and the grace of circumstance. But when I read the news headlines or see debates about immigration rage on social media, I feel afraid for those in similar situations. I feel afraid for my country.
Apparently Gomez didn’t get the memo that acting ICE Director Caleb Vitello has instructed employees to resume using the term “alien,” in all internal and external communications,” to refer to what the Biden administration called “undocumented immigrants,” according to Axios.
Asked Monday on Fox News Channel’s America Reports how he would respond to Gomez’s concerns, Border Czar Tom Homan said,
I don’t think we arrested any families. We’ve arrested public safety threats and national security threats, bottom line. And look, President Trump won the election on this one issue, securing our border and saving lives. What happened on our southern border, last four years, is the biggest national security threat this country’s seen, at least in my lifetime, because we got over two million known getaways. We got a 600% increase in sex trafficking. We got a record number of terrorists crossing the border on the terrorist watch list. We have a quarter million Americans diving in Fentanyl coming across the open border. We’re going to do this job, and we’re going to enforce the laws of this country. If they don’t like it, then go to Congress and change the law.
Progressives like Gomez definitely don’t like it; they hate when immigration laws are enforced. They try to frame the issue in terms of holier-than-thou “compassion,” which is why Selena Gomez posted the snarky “Apparently it’s not okay to show empathy for people” after she received blowback for her video; but the fact is that progressives only ever empathize with criminals and illegals, never law-abiding citizens. Gomez never posted a teary video about Americans who have been raped and/or killed by illegal aliens.
Toward that point, Homan said Monday on Hannity:
I 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. 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?
Exactly. As he told the Fox News hosts on America Reports,
We’re going to do this operation without apology. We’re going to make our communities safer. We’re going to save – once we lock that border, we’re going to continue this operation, you’re going to see fentanyl deaths decrease, illegal alien crime decrease, sex trafficking decrease. It’s all for the good of this nation. We are going to keep going. No apologies. We are moving forward.
Yes, keep going. Bravo.
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Why doesn’t she cry for the Mexicans getting slaughtered, and tortured, and disappeared in corrupt and evil Mexico? Why doesn’t she speak out against all the violence, poverty, and corruption in Mexico that makes Mexicans want to get the hell out of Mexico?
Make Mexico great for once in its history and your people wouldn’t be coming here illegally you dumb b-word!
THX desperately trying to be relevant during the Trump era.
Because the emotional idiot is a pampered racist. If the dumbbitch is so besotted with illegal alien criminals, she should domicile a few hundred in one of her mansions.
She won’t, which gives her something in common with Oprah.
The crying fool is yet another example that riches don’t necessarily reflect intelligence.
According to Wikipedia little Ms. Gomez has a net worth of 1.3 billion dollars. America has been velly, velly, good to her.
But I think it’s time for her to move to Mexico to be with her people and make Mexico great for once, if her people don’t “disappear” her the moment she sets foot in Mexico City.
Come on Ms. Gomez you can be the Eva Peron of Mexico, she was just as dumb as you.
Maybe she will support you since she has so much money. And you have nothing. But then, you are dumb enough to believe Wikipedia.
Why do Hispanics agree with the open-borders leftists who seem to believe that only gringos are able to create livable countries?
We can start by Deporting all the Democrats and the rest of those Open Borders Welcome Refugees so those Illegal Aliens/Future Democrat Voters and Supporters can have some Company when their returned and we can start with the United Nations the worst of these Invaders
How much hatred someone must have:
To weep for those who rape and murder Americans?
And – most of the victims of these deportees are Hispanic.
What a sick mind she has.
I doubt she even has a mind. Critical thinking isn’t something she’s been taught how to do. She thinks with her emotions.
I’ll bet good money she can’t even do long division or percentages.
She won’t date you either. Do you actually have any good money?
You’ll have to forgive the ignorant bimbo. She is the byproduct of Hollywood group-think.
(Children that grow up among celebrities are never trained to think rationally.)
Domicile her with those illegals that she’s weeping over, and if she survives the encounter, she’ll understand why the residents of Martha’s Vineyard tripped all over themselves to kick 48 illegals out.
Sorry for nothing Selena. Why is that? It’s because I know you are full of crap on this issue. Find another
country to be a traitor in. We do not need you here in The USA.
As emotionally laden fools don’t care to think things through, she failed to even contemplate that drying her tears with a $100 bill might not be a good look.
Whoops!
After puting her embarrassing tantrum on full display, the cosseted fool apparently got smacked with a painful dose of reality and tried to delet the post – failing to realize the enter button is permanent.
(Perhaps the lesson will teach her to think first, cry later.)
I doubt she shed tears for “her people” who live in Aurora, CO. Those minorities didn’t have the same benefit of secure palisades that she & Oprah reside in, so they reaped the fallout of Biden’s bullshit immigration policy.
I don’t think the residents of Aurora will cry over Venezuelan gangs being deported. (The mayor might; just not on camera.)
If she cares so much, she needs to put her money where her mouth is. She has the wherewithal and rich friends enough to provide grants and loans so that the deported people can be helped to have a decent life, move to a third country etc. Most of these people are economic refugees. If they receive loans, and go to weekly money management meetings with a non-profit, they should be able to prosper. Some aliens need drug rehab or mental health care, including drug treatment to stop sex offending (libido suppression). Helping them in Mexico, for example, is much cheaper. These bleeding hearts need to give to KIVA for loans to deported people and to other reputable non-profits. But liberal tears mean nothing
“My grandparents followed, and my father was born in Texas soon after. In 1992, I was born a U.S. citizen….”
And that is what Trump’s EO on ending birthright citizenship will stop….at long last!
Fake tears, and fake cooking skills on the Food Channel. Mary Makes It Easy, that’s a class on cooking with class.
All women including your mother, your wife and your daughter can cry on command if they feel it is required for attention or to get their own way.
My wife gives me the evil eye stare when she wants her way. When she does that, saying no is not an option!
I understand Selena Gomez’s mother is of Italian descent.
That would explain why she hasn’t grown fat ~
What could she do? Go to the border and scream: “TURN AROUND! GO BACK! I’ll go with you so I can be among My People! I’m sure George Lopez and John Leguizamo will join me! Bring all of your C-130s Senor Orange Man and I’ll fill ’em up with more Amigos! NO DEI PILOTS POR FAVOR!”
Shouldn’t she, and other crybabies who never shed a tear for the VICTIMS OF ILLEGALS, blame the Democrats who allowed this ILLEGAL invasion instead of encouraging immigrants to stand in line to do it The Long Way, The Hard Way, The Right Way like LEGALS who are very bitter at all the help given for THE ILLEGAL WAY when there was no one there to help them do it THE HONORABLE WAY!
“THE CHILDREN”. THE VICTIMS OF ILLEGALS ARE SOMEBODY’S CHILDREN TOO, but they’re separated from their families by SIX FEET OF DIRT…. FOREVER!
ONLY WHEN HIGH-RANKING AND FAMOUS DEMOCRATS ARE VICTIMS, WILL THE TIDE START TO TURN BECAUSE THEY’LL USE THEIR POWERFUL VOICE TO PROMOTE THE RULE OF LAW!
Give me a break Selena. Actors and actresses are trained to cry on cue because it’s their job. So no one believes you. Never heard of you before and I probably never will again.
But you do remind me of the pathetic chorus of Leftist women who cut their hair, swore off sex, and threatened to leave the country in the wake of the 2024 election.
I wonder if any actually did leave.
From what I’ve read about her she’s very wealthy and owns a lot of property. and can afford to dig deep into her own pockets to “help her people out.” Alas, I’ll win the lotto five times in a row before that ever happens.
Selena Gomez is proof positive that you don’t have to be talented or smart to make money.
As my grandmother eloquently stated in Yiddish, Sheise always floats to the top.
So she admitted her aunt came over as an illegal alien? These people are so ingno0rant and pathetic.
How did this woke, regressive, unattractive, semi-talented moron get so rich? Heard long ago that she was a teen star. Stunning is also she has~420 mio followers? That is pathetic. Foolish, brainwashed masses.
The sanctimonious hypocrite has many mansions & estates. How many ‘my people’ illegals is she housing & feeding for free? My guess is Zero.
So as her father was an anchor baby, does that make her an illegal as well?
I have no idea who she but I guess she must famous in somebodies mind.
however she thinks children are being deported or is she upset about the children in the ”cages” that Obama built or the fact that most of the deportees are NOT Mexican.
I knew a few people in El Paso that were born in Mexico and lived, legally, in Texas for decades and most of them never even went back there for a visit and despised those people who just walked across the Rio Grande and demand everything.
One guy I knew told me… “” Why would I want to go over there, its a shit hole, here is better and here is my home”” .
She is waving the Flag of Mexico while speaking about ”Her people”…. No Flag of Old Glory in the room.
She needs to go live BACK and live in Old Mexico.