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As promised deportations of illegals got underway across Donald Trump’s America, actress and singer Selena Gomez did what progressive women do so often that it’s indicative of a sort of mass hysteria: she posted to social media a short video of her tearful breakdown over basic immigration law being enforced.
Over the first weekend after Trump’s ascension to the Presidency, federal agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and their partners got underway nationwide roundups of more than 1,200 illegal immigrants who were charged or convicted with committing crimes on American soil. Trump reportedly wants to average 1,200 deportations a day.
A Department of Homeland Security official revealed last week that the Department of Justice has given U.S. Marshals Service, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), and other federal agencies the authority to investigate and apprehend illegal aliens.
“Mobilizing these law enforcement officials will help fulfill President Trump’s promise to the American people to carry out mass deportations,” the DHS spokesperson said. “For decades, efforts to find and apprehend illegal aliens have not been given proper resources. This is a major step in fixing that problem.”
To ordinary Americans, this seems like a positive first step forward in terms of fixing our sieve of a southern border: removing “the worst first”: felons who are here illegally. But progressive elites like Selena Gomez find the enforcement of immigration law cruel and unconscionable.
In response to the Trump administration taking action to remove criminal foreign elements, the American-born star of the overhyped (because it features the first trans Oscar nominee) French musical Emilia Pérez posted a video for her 422 million Instagram followers. In it she sobbed an apology to those here illegally along with the caption “I’m sorry” and a Mexican flag emoji.
“All my people are getting attacked, the children. I don’t understand,” she barely managed to say while wiping away tears. “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 video was so widely mocked across social media that she deleted the post shortly afterward. Talk show host Piers Morgan probably said it best when he wrote, “Posting yourself weeping over illegal immigrant criminals being deported is a new level of absurd celebrity narcissism.”
Illegal immigration is near and dear to Gomez’s heart. In a 2019 Time Magazine interview, she spoke about how it shaped her own family’s story. “In the 1970s, my aunt crossed the border from Mexico to the United States hidden in the back of a truck,” she said. “My grandparents followed, and my father was born in Texas soon after. In 1992, I was born a U.S. citizen thanks to their bravery and sacrifice.”
She even executive produced a Netflix documentary series about illegals called Living Undocumented. She told Time,
Undocumented immigration is an issue I think about every day, and I never forget how blessed I am to have been born in this country thanks to my family and the grace of circumstance. But when I read the news headlines or see debates about immigration rage on social media, I feel afraid for those in similar situations. I feel afraid for my country.
Apparently Gomez didn’t get the memo that acting ICE Director Caleb Vitello has instructed employees to resume using the term “alien,” in all internal and external communications,” to refer to what the Biden administration called “undocumented immigrants,” according to Axios.
Asked Monday on Fox News Channel’s America Reports how he would respond to Gomez’s concerns, Border Czar Tom Homan said,
I don’t think we arrested any families. We’ve arrested public safety threats and national security threats, bottom line. And look, President Trump won the election on this one issue, securing our border and saving lives. What happened on our southern border, last four years, is the biggest national security threat this country’s seen, at least in my lifetime, because we got over two million known getaways. We got a 600% increase in sex trafficking. We got a record number of terrorists crossing the border on the terrorist watch list. We have a quarter million Americans diving in Fentanyl coming across the open border. We’re going to do this job, and we’re going to enforce the laws of this country. If they don’t like it, then go to Congress and change the law.
Progressives like Gomez definitely don’t like it; they hate when immigration laws are enforced. They try to frame the issue in terms of holier-than-thou “compassion,” which is why Selena Gomez posted the snarky “Apparently it’s not okay to show empathy for people” after she received blowback for her video; but the fact is that progressives only ever empathize with criminals and illegals, never law-abiding citizens. Gomez never posted a teary video about Americans who have been raped and/or killed by illegal aliens.
Homan continued, telling the Fox News hosts,
We’re going to do this operation without apology. We’re going to make our communities safer. We’re going to save – once we lock that border, we’re going to continue this operation, you’re going to see fentanyl deaths decrease, illegal alien crime decrease, sex trafficking decrease. It’s all for the good of this nation. We are going to keep going. No apologies. We are moving forward.
Yes, keep going. Bravo.
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