In the moments of tension and uncertainty being experienced in the United States regarding immigration issues, singer and actress Selena Gomez became a trending topic on social media after posting a video crying due to the deportations that Latino migrants have suffered in recent days since Donald Trump’s inauguration. The controversy has now been joined by Venezuelan model and actress Alicia Machado.
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The Texan singer of Mexican descent expressed, with tears in her eyes, her deep sadness for the situation faced by Mexicans deported from the United States. "I just want to say that I am very sorry. They are attacking all of my people, and mainly the children. The way they are doing it is not right, they are treating them as criminals when they are really here fighting to have a better life and trying to support their families," said the visibly affected singer.
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What did Alicia Machado say about the viral video of Selena Gomez crying over the deportations of Mexicans in the United States?
Gomez's post was negatively received by many people on the internet, due to her recent work in the controversial movie, Emilia Pérez. Alicia Machado, for example, was one of the strongest voices against the former Disney artist.
Through her Instagram account, the former beauty queen made a comment against Selena Gomez on one of Enowlatino's posts: "Stupid girl... Start studying Spanish and go to the gym, girl, to the gym. I'll send you my proteins. Jessy is boring," Machado wrote, sparking a wave of reactions both in support and against her words.
Jessy is because of Selena Gomez’s character in the movie “Emilia Perez.”
Although many people rejected the comment against the physicist Gomez, who suffers from lupus (an autoimmune disease that has caused health complications, such as the need for a kidney transplant, and weight gain due to medical treatments), most people agreed with the rejection of Gomez's video.
“I didn’t have to talk about her weight, but I still agree with her,” “Alicia Machado, we will never take you seriously” flooded the networks regarding Machado’s comments.