Selena Gomez Posts, Deletes Emotional Video Amid Immigration Sweeps; Border Czar Responds

Pop star and actress Selena Gomez briefly shared a tearful video on her social media story Monday, expressing distress over the recent immigration enforcement sweeps launched by the Trump administration, CNN reports.

The video, which was quickly deleted, showed Gomez sobbing and stating that “all my people are getting attacked.”

“The children. I don’t understand. I’m so sorry,” she said in the video. “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 also included the text “I’m sorry” next to a Mexican flag emoji.

In a follow-up post, also deleted, Gomez wrote, “apparently it’s not ok to show empathy for people.”

Gomez, who is of Mexican-American heritage, has not publicly addressed the issue further since deleting the posts.

The Trump administration’s immigration enforcement blitz, initiated Sunday, has resulted in over 1,100 arrests across the country according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) as of Monday. Multiple agencies, including ICE and the Department of Justice, were involved, targeting individuals deemed public safety and national security threats. Operations were reported in various locations including California, Texas, Georgia, Colorado, Puerto Rico, the US Virgin Islands, and Chicago.

Later Monday, former border czar Tom Homan responded to Gomez’s video during an interview on Fox News. He questioned why Gomez was not also expressing grief for those who have died from fentanyl being trafficked across the southern border, a concern often highlighted by the Trump administration.

“I‘ve met with hundreds of … moms and dads who were separated from their children because they buried them, because they were killed by illegal aliens,” Homan told host Sean Hannity. He also questioned why Gomez wasn’t crying for children who had been illegally smuggled into the US and then killed or sex trafficked – a claim that has been previously pushed by Trump, and that has been found to significantly distort federal statistics.

The enforcement operation resulted in 956 arrests on Sunday, as announced by ICE, and the number has risen to more than 1,100 arrests as of Monday, with operations ongoing.