Trump's 'Border Czar' Tells Selena Gomez He'll Continue Deportations 'Without Apology' After Her Tearful Video

Tom Homan is not apologizing to Selena Gomez for massive deportations under President Donald Trump’s administration.

On Monday, Jan. 27, the 63-year-old law enforcement officer and political commentator spoke exclusively to Fox News in response to a tearful video the singer and actress, 32, shared earlier in the day.

“We’re gonna do this job, and we’re gonna enforce the laws of this country. If they don't like it, then go to Congress and change the law. We're going to do this operation without apology,” Homan, the former director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) who was tapped to serve as the "border czar" in Trump's administration, told the network during a televised interview.

He continued, insisting that Trump’s recent immigration crackdown would soon “make our community safer.”

“Once we lock that border down [and] continue this operation, you're gonna see fentanyl deaths decrease, illegal alien crime decrease, sex trafficking decrease. It’s all for the good of this nation. And we're going to keep going. No apologies. We're moving forward,” Homan said.

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At the start of the conversation, he addressed the Emilia Pérez star’s claims head-on: “I don’t think we’ve arrested any families. We’ve arrested public safety threats and national security threats, bottom line.”

Ahead of Homan’s Fox News appearance Monday, ​​the Only Murders in the Building actress uploaded an emotional video to her Instagram Stories.

“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 crying.

Gomez, who has been vocal about being proud of her Mexican heritage, wrote, “I’m sorry" with a Mexican flag emoji over the video.

Soon after, a 2018 Republican Senate candidate from Utah named Sam Parker criticized her video, using his personal account to tweet: “Deport Selena Gomez.”

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The Rare Beauty founder fired back with a message of her own.

“Oh, Mr. Parker, Mr. Parker. Thanks for the laugh and the threat,” she wrote on her Instagram Stories over a black background.

Nearly 1,000 arrests were made by ICE in the days after Trump, 78, was sworn into office on Jan. 20, the BBC reported Jan. 26.

The 956 reported arrests included 286 arrests on Saturday, Jan. 25, 593 arrests on Friday, Jan. 24, and 538 arrests on Thursday, Jan. 23, according to the outlet.

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Gomez previously told Time in a heartfelt October 2019 op-ed that her aunt “was the first person in her family to cross the border from Mexico into the U.S. in the back of a truck in the 1970s."

At the time, the “Good for You” singer also said her "grandparents followed” and her “father was born in Texas soon after."

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