Flavor Flav shows love for Selena Gomez amid deportation and immigration raids
Flavor Flav has shown support for Selena Gomez and came to her defence after she expressed outrage and sadness at President Donald Trump’s actions. Since his inauguration, the American leader has signed a number of executive orders and has clamped down on immigration, with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) arresting and detaining those thought to be “illegal aliens.”
Cities such as Chicago have been targeted, and on January 26th, a record 956 people were arrested, according to reports. Gomez was holding back tears when she took to social media and reacted to the news. Her father, who is of Mexican descent, played a big part in her life. Central American immigrants, including Mexicans, have been heavily targeted by Trump in his efforts to curb illegal immigration to the US.
Taking to Instagram, Gomez told her followers, “I just wanted to say that I’m so sorry. 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.”
The singer and Emilia Perez star swiftly decided to delete the video after facing a lot of backlash, and wrote in a subsequent story, “Apparently it’s not OK to show empathy for people.” Still, Flavor Flav of Public Enemy has come to Gomez’s defence and praised her comments, writing on X (formerly Twitter), “Team Selena Gomez. Again. That woman is always so brave to share her truth, and so many are quick to bully her.”
Gomez is the most followed woman on Instagram, boasting 423 million followers, and the third most followed person after footballers Cristiano Ronaldo and Lionel Messi. Gomez has spoken out on multiple occasions about the rights of migrants in the US and hosted the show Living Undocumented in 2019, which focused on undocumented migrants attempting to make a living and get papers in America while avoiding the fury of ICE.
She also wrote an explosive opinion piece for Time Magazine, telling the story of her aunt’s only journey across the US/Mexican border, which saw her gain access to America. A paragraph of her article read, “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.”
Other celebrities, such as Madonna, have also recently called out the US Republican government and accused them of “slowly dismantling all the freedoms we have been fighting for.”
In other Flavor Flav news, the former Public Enemy hypeman recently partnered with GoFundMe to create a fundraiser focused on helping black families who have been displaced by the Los Angeles wildfires.