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Flavor Flav has thrown his support behind Selena Gomez after she was hit with backlash for posting a video of herself crying over President Trump’s program of mass deportations.

“Team Selena Gomez. Again,” the “Fight the Power” rapper, 65, wrote on X Monday as he jumped to the “Only Murders in the Building” star’s defense.

“That woman is always so brave to share her truth,,, and so many are quick to bully her.”

Flavor Flav has thrown his support behind Selena Gomez after she posted a video of herself crying over President Trump’s program of mass deportations. Getty Images

Flav’s post came just hours after Gomez, 32, posted — and then quickly deleted — a video of herself sobbing on social media.

“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,” Gomez told her 422 million Instagram followers.

“I’m sorry,” the “Love On” singer captioned her clip alongside a Mexican flag emoji.

After deleting the video, Gomez shared a follow-up message to the world on her Instagram Story — then deleted that post, as well.

The rapper took to social media to defend the “Only Murders in the Building” actress. @FlavorFlav/X

“Apparently it’s not ok to show empathy for people,” she wrote.

The “Emilia Pérez” actress was instantly hit with backlash from social media users and political figures, including Sam Parker, a 2018 Republican Senate candidate from Utah.

“Deport Selena Gomez,” Parker wrote on X.

Not long after, Gomez returned to her Instagram Story to respond to the politician’s post.

On Monday, Gomez posted — and then quickly deleted — a video of herself sobbing on social media. selenagomez/Instagram
“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,” Gomez said. selenagomez/Instagram

“Oh, Mr. Parker, Mr. Parker. Thanks for the laugh and the threat,” she wrote.

Elsewhere, border czar Tom Homan said the Trump administration has “no apologies” for the ICE raids targeting illegal migrants in the US when asked about Gomez’s plea.

In his response, Homan denied the alleged attacks Gomez referenced and claimed that Immigration Customs and Enforcement is targeting illegal migrants with prior criminal history.

“If they don’t like it, then go to Congress and change the law. We’re going to do this operation without apology,” Homan told Fox News.

“We’re gonna make our community safer. It is all for the good of this nation. And we’re gonna keep going. No apologies. We’re moving forward.”

Over the weekend alone, ICE made 286 arrests on Saturday and 956 on Sunday.

The “Emilia Pérez” actress later responded to Sam Parker, a 2018 Republican Senate candidate from Utah. selenagomez/Instagram

On Tuesday, raids began taking place in and around NYC as the Trump administration ramped up the quota to at least 1,800 arrests per day.

So far, ICE has made more than 4,500 arrests since Trump’s return to office and has conducted raids in major sanctuary cities including New York, Denver, Chicago, Los Angeles and Boston.

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