Selena Gomez sarcastically thanked a Senate candidate for the ‘laugh and the threat’ after he said she should be ‘deported’ for a tearful video sympathizing with Mexican migrants.
The actress and pop star, 32, sobbed on camera in response to President Donald Trump’s mass deportations of undocumented immigrants – a policy he campaigned on ahead of the 2024 election.
She swiftly deleted the video, but sparked backlash from Republicans and MAGA supporters.
One of her most outspoken critics was U.S. Senate candidate Sam Parker, who called for Gomez herself to be deported in response to her video.
Gomez was born in the United States and is an American citizen. Her grandparents fled Mexico seeking a better life.
‘Deport Selena Gomez,’ he wrote on X alongside the tearful video.
‘Selena Gomez picked illegals over America b/c she’s the 3rd gen descendent of Mexican illegals who received citizenship in the ’87 Amnesty,’ he wrote on a separate account which he later shared on his professional profile.
‘She has an entitlement attitude toward America, like her illegal g’parents. Maybe Selena should be deported, too?’
Selena Gomez sobbed as she reacted to Trump’s threat of mass deportations of all undocumented immigrants, which has ignited fears of family separations
Selena Gomez has hit back at a Senate candidate who called for her to be ‘deported’ after she shared a tearful video sympathizing with Mexican migrants under Donald Trump ‘s regime
Within hours the Disney child star responded on Instagram, writing: ‘Oh Mr. Parker, Mr. Parker. Thanks for the laugh and the threat.’
Parker relished in the attention he received from Gomez’ fanbase, sharing her response and writing: ‘Inject their tears into my VEINS.
‘I dragged Selena Gomez pretty hard today.’
In her initial video, Gomez said: ‘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.’
The Wizards of Waverly Place alum captioned the post: ‘I’m sorry [Mexican flag emoji].’
The sweeping raids across the country have seen violent criminals rounded up and sent packing on government flights at break-neck speed.
Spearheading the immigration overhaul is border czar Tom Homan, who issued a scathing response to Gomez’s video meltdown.
‘If they don’t like it, then go to Congress and change the law. We’re going to do this operation without apology,’ Homan told Fox News.
One of her most outspoken critics was U.S. Senate candidate Sam Parker, who called for Gomez herself to be deported in response to her video
JUST IN: Border Czar Tom Homan reacts to Selena Gomez’s viral breakdown, says he has “no apologies” and he is going to keep moving forward.
The reaction we’ve all been waiting for.
“If they don’t like it, then go to Congress and change the law.”
“We’re going to do this… pic.twitter.com/OQv9Vdhj4V
— Collin Rugg (@CollinRugg) January 27, 2025
‘We’re gonna make our community safer… It is all for the good of this nation. And we’re gonna keep going. No apologies. We’re moving forward.’
Homan denied that children are being targeted and doubled down that the administration is working to deport illegal migrants with criminal records.
‘I don’t think we’ve arrested any families. We’ve arrested public safety threats and national security threats, bottom-line,’ he said.
‘President Trump won the election on this one issue – securing our border and saving lives. What happened on our southern border in the last four years is the biggest national security threat our county has seen, at least in my lifetime.’
Gomez also faced backlash from critics, who were quick to slam her for not using her reported net worth of $1.3 billion to take action herself.
Megyn Kelly also slammed the Emilia Perez actress, claiming she wanted to push an agenda that her fans disagreed with.
‘She deleted it after her fans taught her that the majority of the country stands behind these policies, but I’m sure she was shocked to get any blowback whatsoever,’ Kelly said.
‘She’s unwell. Obviously, this is an unwell person… And by the way, anybody who takes their phone works up in tears and posts a video of themselves crying into their phone is sick. That’s a sick person.
‘Tears happen. They tend to happen privately. If they happen publicly. I think you should quickly move on and recover, but I don’t understand the person who works it and tries to squeeze out more tears to make themselves look extra sad. ‘I’m really sad. I know I have hundreds of millions [followers], but I hate this country.”
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said it made 956 arrests nationwide on Sunday and 286 on Saturday
Marines installed wire along the southern border with Mexico on Saturday
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said it made 956 arrests nationwide on Sunday and 286 on Saturday.
The Trump Administration has quickly moved to ramp up deportations and arrest illegal migrants who pose ‘public safety threats ‘, specifically targeting sanctuary cities such as Chicago, San Francisco and San Jose – which bar cooperation between city police and immigration agents.
However, the president has reportedly been unhappy with the low number and has directed officials to meet higher detention quotas.
He ordered ICE to raise the arrest numbers from a few hundred a day to at least 1,200 to 1,500, according to The Washington Post.
