Selena Gomez cries for Mexicans illegally in the US facing deportation in now-deleted post

Gomez cried on camera, saying "I just wanted to say that I'm 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."

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She later deleted the post, but in reposts of the video, she was roundly mocked on X. Gomez, from Texas, is of Mexican and Italian ancestry, with her grandparents having emigrated to the US from Monterrey in the 1970s.

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Gomez has not previously spoken up about the issue of human trafficking by international cartels getting rich by charging exorbitant fees to smuggle people across the border, nor the fentanyl crisis spurred on by that situation. Under the Biden administration, over 300,000 children who had come across the border unaccompanied were lost in the system by Department of Homeland Security and Health and Human Services officials. Many of those being deported are sex offenders, some of whom have been charged with child rape, such as a Thai man who was detained over the weekend.

American voters largely support the removal of illegal immigrants in the United States, with his support for the removal of criminals. Homan has said that the mass deportations would focus on those who have open detainers against them and those who have been charged with crimes. The large group of illegal immigrants known as Dreamers, those who were brought here as children by their parents, are likely to be spared under Trump, who said that there would need to be "something" done for them.

"We have to do something about the Dreamers, because these are people that have been brought here at a very young age, and many of these are middle-aged people now, they don’t even speak the language of their country," Trump said in December. "I will work with the Democrats on a plan."

"They were brought into this country many years ago," he continued. "Some of them are no longer young people, and in many cases they've become successful. They have great jobs. In some cases, they have small businesses. Some cases they might have large businesses, and we’re going to have to do something with them."

In a conversation with ABC News' Martha Raddatz over the weekend, Homan said that he doesn't anticipate removing every illegal immigrant in the US, in part due to cost concerns. Under the Biden administration, over 2 million illegal immigrants came into the country every year under policies that made it easier to apply for asylum and remain in the United States until asylum hearings could be held, often years down the road.

It is largely in response to these open-door policies that Trump, and the American voters, determined that mass deportations must be undertaken in order to ensure national sovereignty. Brazil, Guatemala and Colombia all balked at the US ask to take back planes full of deported criminal illegal immigrants from the US. Colombia's president resorted to grandstanding about "dignity" of those detained and returned, but finally caved to pressure to accept his countrymen and women home after Trump threatened high tariffs on trade. The US is Colombia's top trading partner.