Selena Gomez is an American actor, singer, producer, businesswoman and a third-generation Mexican American who hasn’t lost touch with her roots and has a deep and abiding empathy for Mexican migrants who are feeling the wrath of Trump’s draconian deportation program.

Gomez was so disturbed and despondent over Trump’s cruel immigration policies that she posted an emotional video on Instagram Story.

In the video, she 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,” she continued through tears, “I don’t know what to do. I’ll try everything, I promise.”

Gomez was brutally attacked by MAGA zealots for her humane and compassionate reaction to the sorry plight of migrants in Trump’s America. They consider empathy a weakness, a thought crime, and an affront to American values. These soulless evangelicals accused her of “acting” and being “out-of-touch.”

“Apparently it’s not OK to show empathy for people,” Gomez wrote in an Instagram Story after taking the video down after the flood of vitriol it elicited.

The former child actor is a kind and gentle soul who is in touch with her humanity and used her platform to appeal to our better angels.

I’m also a Mexican American who feels empathy for brown and black migrants who are being deported by the fascist Trump administration, and I’m using my humble platform to urge Americans of all racial backgrounds to fight back against this evil and undemocratic regime.