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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