There are three things guaranteed in life: death, taxes, and Selena Gomez pissing off the internet.
The latest instance occurred on January 27, when Gomez posted (and quickly deleted) an Instagram Story of herself crying in response to President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown, including increased ICE raids and mass deportations. “I’m so sorry,” said Gomez, who’s half-Mexican and whose paternal grandparents came to the United States undocumented. “All my people are getting attacked, the children. I don’t know what to do. I’ll try everything. I promise.”
It wasn’t an uncommon sentiment to see online at the time, or from Gomez, who has advocated for DREAMers and better immigration policies. She was also a co-executive producer in the 2019 Netflix docuseries Living Undocumented. Still, from one of the internet’s most unlikely but repeatedly controversial figures, the emotional outpouring didn’t quite land…