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President Donald Trump’s administration revealed a response to Selena Gomez’s current Instagram video, through which she cried over the crackdown on deportations of undocumented immigrants, on Friday, Jan. 31.

Within the video, which was revealed on the official White Home Instagram and X accounts, three girls whose kids have been allegedly killed by undocumented individuals are vital of Gomez, 32. The video is titled “Moms of Victims of Illegal Aliens SLAM Selena Gomez: You Didn’t Cry for Our Daughters,” with the ladies’s feedback interspersed with clips of Gomez crying.

The caption for the video referred to the ladies as “brave moms.”

“Seeing that video, it’s onerous to imagine that it’s truly real and actual as a result of she’s an actress,” Alexis Nungaray says within the White Home’s video. 

Selena Gomez in December 2024.

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“I’m so completely satisfied that Trump gained. I’m so glad that this is among the first payments to assist with immigration,” Tammy Nobles later says, though the video doesn’t specify a invoice. “I simply really feel prefer it’s a ruse to deceive folks and to garner sympathy for lawlessness,” Patty Morin provides.

Nungaray’s 12-year-old daughter Jocelyn was killed in Houston in June 2024. Nobles’ daughter Kayla Hamilton, 20, was killed in Maryland in 2022 and Morin’s daughter Rachel, 37, was killed in 2023

Since Trump took workplace on Jan. 20, he has focused undocumented immigrants with mass deportations. He signed the Laken Riley Act, a regulation that goals to provide undocumented immigrants stricter penalties for committing crimes, on Tuesday, Jan. 28. He additionally signed a presidential memorandum ordering the Division of Protection and Division of Homeland Safety to organize a detention facility in Guantanamo Bay to accommodate as much as 30,000 migrants.

In September 2024, a National Institute of Justice-funded study of data from the Texas Department of Public Safety discovered that “undocumented immigrants are arrested at lower than half the speed of native-born U.S. residents for violent and drug crimes and 1 / 4 the speed of native-born residents for property crimes.”

On Jan. 27, Gomez, a Texas-born Mexican-American, revealed an Instagram Tales video of herself in tears with the textual content “I’m sorry” and a Mexican flag emoji. The video was deleted rapidly however circulated on social media.

“All my individuals are getting attacked, the kids,” she might be heard saying by way of tears. “I don’t perceive. I’m so sorry, I want I may do one thing however I can’t. I don’t know what to do. I’ll attempt every little thing, I promise.”

Stills from Selena Gomez’s video.

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Republican politicians have already criticized Gomez for the video. Sam Parker, a 2018 Republican Senate candidate from Utah, wrote “Deport Selena Gomez” on X after the video was revealed. 

“Oh, Mr. Parker, Mr. Parker. Thanks for the chortle and the risk,” Gomez wrote in response.

Tom Homan, the previous director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement who Trump picked to function the “border czar,” advised Fox Information the deportations will proceed “with out apology” when requested to reply to Gomez’s video.

A consultant for Gomez didn’t instantly reply to PEOPLE’s request for remark.

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