Selena Gomez Posts, And Then Quickly Deletes, Tearful Video Crying Over Deportations: “All My People Are Getting Attacked”

Aaron Ryan·
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By “all my people” does she mean…illegal immigrants?

During his first week in office, President Donald Trump has ramped up operations to not only secure our southern border but also deport the millions of illegal immigrants already in our country. As soon as he took the oath of office, the new administration began “targeted operations” aimed at tracking down illegal immigrants who posed a safety threat, such as those who have been charged with violent crimes or sexual assault.

Through the first week of his administration, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has already arrested over 2,500 illegal immigrants, and has shared profiles of some of the most violent including gang members, drug dealers, rapists and alleged murderers.

Border Czar Tom Homan, himself a former director of ICE, has promised that operations would ramp up even further as the agency arrested nearly 1,000 people yesterday alone in sanctuary cities like Chicago. But not everybody’s happy that these violent criminals and public safety threats are being taken off our streets.

Actress and singer Selena Gomez, who was born in Texas to an Italian-American mother and a father who was also born in the United States with Mexican heritage, posted a tearful video to her Instagram story earlier today crying over the deportations and claiming that all of “her people” were being attacked:

“I just wanted to say that I am so sorry. 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.”

The post clearly didn’t go over as well as she expected, because Gomez quickly deleted her story and put up a black slide responding to the backlash:

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Of course the whole “but the children” thing has been a popular rallying cry for those who are opposed to the deportations, but Homan recently clarified that the operations are not (as has been rumored) going into schools to round up undocumented children, but rather are focused on those who are public safety threats and people with criminal records:

And we’ve gotten a couple of behind-the-scenes looks as ice has carried out their operations, including one viral moment when an illegal immigrant from Haiti who is a suspected MS-13 gang member and wanted in his own country for murder claimed that he wasn’t going back to Haiti while screaming “f*ck Trump” and “Joe Biden forever.”

Last night, television host Dr. Phil joined Homan on the ground in Chicago as ICE was making arrests, sharing a video of his conversation with an immigrant from Thailand who has previously been convicted of sex crimes involving children:

Sorry, but it’s hard to have much empathy for guys like that.

Of course the biggest battle over immigration of Trump’s new term came over the weekend when Colombia refused to allow two planes carrying deported migrants to land back in the country. Trump threatened to implement 25% tariffs on all goods coming into the United States from Colombia, along with other sanctions including visa restrictions from the South American country, and last night it was announced that Colombia had reversed course and agreed to accept the military flights after all:

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