On Monday, January 27, the Emilia Perez star, 32, posted an emotional video on her Instagram Story, visibly in tears. She captioned it with “I’m sorry” alongside a Mexican flag emoji.
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“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,” she said while sobbing. In a follow-up post, she added, “Apparently it’s not ok to show empathy for people.”
Her reaction comes just a day after Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) reported 956 arrests in a nationwide crackdown, the highest since Trump returned to office, according to the BBC. The arrests followed 286 detentions on January 25, 593 on January 24, and 538 on January 23.
Data from the Migration Policy Institute, cited by the BBC, shows that former President Joe Biden oversaw 1.5 million deportations in his first four years—a figure nearly identical to Trump’s first term.
Gomez has long been an outspoken advocate for immigration rights. In 2019, she produced the Netflix docuseries Living Undocumented, which highlighted the struggles of undocumented families in the U.S. She also shared her own family’s immigration journey in a TIME op-ed, revealing that her aunt was the first to cross the U.S.-Mexico border in the back of a truck in the 1970s.
“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,” she wrote at the time.
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