White House Releases Video Of Angel Moms Ripping Selena Gomez: ‘Didn’t Cry For Our Daughters’

The White House released a video featuring the mothers of victims who were killed by illegal immigrants in response to Selena Gomez’s viral video of herself crying over the Trump administration’s deportations.

Gomez’s original video showed her openly weeping due to President Donald Trump’s policies. “I just wanted to say that I’m so sorry,” she said in the video posted last week. “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 pop star quickly deleted the Instagram Stories post due to backlash, then followed up with the response, “Apparently it’s not ok to show empathy for people,” which she also deleted.

The official White House post is called “Moms of Victims of Illegal Aliens SLAM Selena Gomez: You Didn’t Cry for Our Daughters.” It included pieces of Gomez’s original video alongside reaction interviews with three women, known as Angel Moms, whose children were killed by illegal immigrants. 

The video was shared on X by White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt, who also tagged Gomez.

.@selenagomez pic.twitter.com/4pFWrBGOQH

— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) February 1, 2025

“Seeing that video, it’s actually hard to believe that it’s genuine and real, because she’s an actress,” a mom named Alexis Nungaray, whose 12-year-old daughter was killed, said in the video. 

“My daughter was a child. There’s many other children whose lives were taken due to the people who cross here illegally.”   

Tammy Nobles is the mother of Kathy Hamilton, who was raped and murdered in a Maryland mobile home by El Salvadorian national Walter Javier Martinez, per NBC News. She says in the video, “You don’t know who you’re crying for.”

“What about our children who were brutally murdered, and raped and beat to death and left on the floor by these illegal immigrants?” Nobles asked. “I am so happy that Trump won. I’m so glad that this is one of the first bills to help with immigration,” she said at another point. 

“I just feel like it’s a ruse to deceive people and to garner sympathy for lawlessness,” a mother named Patty Morin says in her response to Gomez’s reaction. “No one has stood up except us mothers to cry out about our children.”

Morin’s daughter Rachel Morin, a mother of five, was discovered dead on Maryland’s Ma and Pa trail in 2023. A man from El Salvador named Victor Antonio Martinez-Hernandez was arrested in connection with her murder. NBC News noted that he was also being investigated for murder in his home country.

The three women conclude by thanking President Trump for his drive to deport violent illegal immigrants from the country.

“We stand with President Trump to make America safe again,” Morin said.