Selena Gomez hasn’t typically been one of those celebrities prone to making political statements, but U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision this week to rescind the Obama administration’s DACA program (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals) has led her to get political.
DACA has provided work permits for some 800,000 undocumented aliens who entered the U.S. as children. Ending the program could lead these people — known as “Dreamers” — to be deported to the home nations of their parents, effectively shattering the lives and careers they’ve built in America while being forced back to countries which, in some cases, they haven’t been to since they were youngsters.
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In an Instagram post, Gomez takes aim at the DACA decision, and urges her 126 million Instagram followers to contact congresspeople and senators to let their opposition to Trump’s DACA decision be known.
“My definition of dreamer is someone that thinks big and believes that anything is possible,” she writes.
“The wonderful people being threatened by the unfortunate reversal of DACA are exactly that,” she adds. “Please call The White House, your local member of Congress and state Senators to let your voice be heard and defend DACA!”
