Selena Gomez shared a vulnerable video on her Instagram stories crying over the deportation of undocumented immigrants under President Trump's aggressive new policy. The Mexican-American actress posted the video early Monday. The 'Only Murders in the Building' star's message was met with immediate backlash among Trump supporters. She later deleted the video and posted this Instagram story that read, "Apparently it's not OK to show empathy for people," which has also since been deleted.
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00:00All my people are getting attacked, the children, I don't understand.
00:11Selena Gomez shared a vulnerable video on her Instagram stories, crying over the deportation
00:16of undocumented immigrants under President Trump's aggressive new policy.
00:20The Mexican-American actress posted the video early Monday.
00:23I'm so sorry, I wish I could do something, but I can't.
00:28I don't know what to do, I'll try everything I promise.
00:35The Only Murders in the Building star's message was met with immediate backlash among Trump
00:39supporters.
00:40She later deleted the video and posted this Instagram story that read,
00:43Apparently, it's not okay to show empathy for people, which has also since been deleted.
00:48According to Fox News, ICE agents and their partners conducted nationwide roundups of
00:53more than 1,200 undocumented immigrants over the weekend.
00:56Gomez has been an immigration advocate in the past, previously writing an essay on the
01:00subject for Time magazine and producing a 2019 documentary for Netflix called Living
01:05Undocumented.
01:07She said of the documentary,
01:08At the time, as a Mexican-American woman, I feel a responsibility to use my platform
01:12to be a voice for people who are too afraid to speak.
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