'I can’t even imagine what these kids being separated from their families are going through' -- SelenaGomez on the border crisis
The issue hits home for the songstress, whose own grandparents immigrated to the United States. “I’m always very vocal about my background, as far as me talking about immigration and my grandparents having to come across the border illegally. I wouldn’t have been born [otherwise],” Gomez explained.
She went on to slam the Trump administration's cruel treatment of immigrant families, separating the parents from their young children. “I can’t even imagine what these kids being separated from their families are going through,” she continued. “It’s something that is going to traumatize them for the rest of their lives. And it just seems animalistic.”which follows eight families who agreed to let film crews chronicle their lives as they faced potential deportation.
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