{"id":7824,"date":"2025-01-29T23:18:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/?p=7824"},"modified":"2025-01-29T23:18:02","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T23:18:02","slug":"selena-gomez-sobs-in-raw-since-deleted-video-with-mexican-flag-says-all-my-people-are-getting-attacked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runeecho.com\/selena-gomez-sobs-in-raw-since-deleted-video-with-mexican-flag-says-all-my-people-are-getting-attacked\/","title":{"rendered":"Selena Gomez Sobs in Raw, Since-Deleted Video with Mexican Flag, Says &lsquo;All My People Are Getting Attacked&rsquo;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p id='\"mntl-sc-block_1-0\"'><a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/people.com%5C/tag%5C/selena-gomez%5C/%5C%22">Selena Gomez&nbsp;is devastated amid President&nbsp;</a><a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/people.com%5C/tag%5C/donald-trump%5C/%5C%22">Donald Trump&lsquo;s immigration crackdown.\n\n\n\n<p id='\"mntl-sc-block_3-0\"'>On Monday, Jan. 27, the&nbsp;<em>Emilia P\u00e9rez&nbsp;star, 32, shared a video to her Instagram Story while in tears, alongside the caption, \u201cI\u2019m sorry&rdquo; with a Mexican flag emoji.\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"' id='\"mntl-sc-block_5-0\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/people.com%5C/thmb%5C/0M4Oc11CyxYK56N9_zXiv3kCKv0=%5C/4000x0%5C/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(499x0:501x2):format(webp)%5C/selena-gomez-sobbing-instagram-012725-3-72acd184346e4d7a8d6963a117b55d4a.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"Selena' gomez sobs in raw video with mexican flag><figcaption class='\"wp-element-caption\"'>Selena Gomez in January 2025.&nbsp;Selena Gomez\/Instagram\n\n\n\n<p id='\"mntl-sc-block_6-0\"'>\u201cAll my people are getting attacked, the children. I don\u2019t understand. I\u2019m so sorry, I wish I could do something but I can\u2019t. I don\u2019t know what to do. I\u2019ll try everything, I promise,\u201d Gomez said in the video while sobbing.\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"' id='\"mntl-sc-block_8-0\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/people.com%5C/thmb%5C/MyrFDAOem0S3QGP7fYX30TZy7pU=%5C/4000x0%5C/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(499x0:501x2):format(webp)%5C/selena-gomez-sobbing-instagram-012725-2-292a1f3250814d0d9731000c4ee40733.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"Selena' gomez sobs in raw video with mexican flag><figcaption class='\"wp-element-caption\"'>Selena Gomez in January 2025.&nbsp;Selena Gomez\/Instagram\n\n\n\n<p><a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/people.com%5C/music%5C/selena-gomez-living-undocumented-premiere%5C/%5C%22">Selena Gomez Premieres &lsquo;Living Undocumented&rsquo; During Emotional Night with Series&rsquo; &lsquo;Brave&rsquo; Subjects\n\n\n\n<p id='\"mntl-sc-block_11-0\"'>In another Instagram Story, Gomez wrote: &ldquo;Apparently it&rsquo;s not ok to show empathy for people.&rdquo;\n\n\n\n<figure class='\"wp-block-image\"' id='\"mntl-sc-block_13-0\"'><img decoding='\"async\"' src="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/people.com%5C/thmb%5C/LFBhDbelpZemizKglRWmzKjZIJc=%5C/4000x0%5C/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc():focal(581x0:583x2):format(webp)%5C/selena-gomez-sobbing-instagram-012725-1-dc87622778864e04a22677141f59c2ab.jpg%5C%22" alt='\"Selena' gomez sobs in raw video with mexican flag><figcaption class='\"wp-element-caption\"'>Selena Gomez on Instagram in January 2025.&nbsp;Selena Gomez\/Instagram\n\n\n\n<p id='\"mntl-sc-block_14-0\"'>The &ldquo;Good for You&rdquo; musician&rsquo;s post comes just one day after 956 people were arrested in a nationwide immigration crackdown \u2014 the most since Trump took office once again, per Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), via the&nbsp;<a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/www.bbc.com%5C/news%5C/articles%5C/cd6434dq7p1o%5C%22" target='\"_blank\"' rel='\"noreferrer' noopener>BBC.\n\n\n\n<p id='\"mntl-sc-block_16-0\"'>According to the outlet, the 956 reported arrests come after 286 arrests on Saturday, Jan. 25, 593 arrests on Friday, Jan. 24 and 538 arrests on Thursday, Jan. 23.\n\n\n\n</p><p id='\"mntl-sc-block_18-0\"'>Per the Migration Policy Institute via the BBC,&nbsp;<a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/people.com%5C/tag%5C/joe-biden%5C/%5C%22">former President Joe Biden&nbsp;executed 1.5 million deportations during his first four years \u2014 numbers which &ldquo;mirror the deportation numbers in Trump&rsquo;s first term.&rdquo;\n\n\n\n<p id='\"mntl-sc-block_20-0\"'>Gomez has previously been outspoken in her advocacy for immigration.\n\n\n\n</p><p id='\"mntl-sc-block_22-0\"'>In 2019, she produced&nbsp;the Netflix docuseries<em>&nbsp;<a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/people.com%5C/human-interest%5C/selena-gomez-previews-living-undocumented-netflix-trailer%5C/%5C%22">Living Undocumented,&nbsp;which centered on the lives of undocumented families in the United States.\n\n\n\n<p id='\"mntl-sc-block_24-0\"'>She also opened up about her family&rsquo;s own experience with undocumented immigration&nbsp;<a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/people.com%5C/music%5C/selena-gomez-thinks-about-undocumented-immigration-every-day-passionate-essay%5C/%5C%22">in an emotional op-ed&nbsp;</a><a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/time.com%5C/5690070%5C/selena-gomez-americas-immigration-crisis%5C/%5C%22" target='\"_blank\"' rel='\"noreferrer' noopener>for&nbsp;<em>TIME&nbsp;in October 2019.&nbsp;\n\n\n\n<p id='\"mntl-sc-block_26-0\"'>\u201cUndocumented 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,\u201d she said in the piece, explaining that her aunt was the first out of her family to cross the border from Mexico into the U.S. in the back of a truck in the 1970s.\n\n\n\n</p><p><a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/people.com%5C/music%5C/selena-gomez-thinks-about-undocumented-immigration-every-day-passionate-essay%5C/%5C%22">Selena Gomez Says She Thinks About Undocumented Immigration &lsquo;Every Day&rsquo; in Passionate Essay\n\n\n\n<p id='\"mntl-sc-block_30-0\"'>Gomez added that her &ldquo;grandparents followed, and my father was born in Texas soon after.&rdquo; She credited her family\u2019s \u201cbravery and sacrifice\u201d for her being born a U.S. citizen.\n\n\n\n</p><p id='\"mntl-sc-block_32-0\"'>However, the&nbsp;<a href="%5C%22https:%5C/%5C/people.com%5C/only-murders-in-the-building-premiere-red-carpet-photos-8700271%5C%22"><em>Only Murders in the Building&nbsp;actress was aware her story wasn&rsquo;t the norm and found herself in tears watching footage about the eight subjects in&nbsp;<em>Living Undocumented.\n\n\n\n<p id='\"mntl-sc-block_34-0\"'>\u201cBut 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,\u201d Gomez wrote.\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"</p><div class='\"mh-excerpt\"'><p>Selena Gomez&nbsp;is devastated amid President&nbsp;Donald Trump&lsquo;s immigration crackdown. 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