In an Instagram video posted Monday, a teary-eyed Gomez accused the Trump administration of attacking illegal immigrants.Multiple social media accounts attached to the Trump administration slammed actress Selena Gomez for posting a video of herself crying over deportations of illegal immigrants.Both the official White House X account and press secretary Karoline Leavitt called out the “Only Murders in The Building” star after she wept on Instagram in response to the ICE raids that the Trump administration ordered
“Kayla Hamilton, Jocelyn Nungaray, and Rachel Morin were murdered by illegal aliens. Their courageous mothers had something to say to @SelenaGomez and those who oppose securing our borders,” the White House account posted on Friday, along with a clip of the aggrieved mothers blasting the pop star.
Gomez uploaded a now-deleted video of her crying to her Instagram page on Monday, where she lamented the nationwide U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids targeting illegal immigrants who have committed crimes in the United States.
“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,” she said to her 422 million Instagram followers.
“I don’t know what to do. I’ll try everything, I promise.”
Gomez’s video was slammed by conservatives on social media, as well as by prominent Trump administration officials like border czar Tom Homan, who responded to the celebrity from Fox News Channel’s “Hannity” on Monday.
“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?”