Selena Gomez reveals that her aunt and grandparents came to the US from Mexico without documentation, writing in an emotional essay, 'I feel afraid for my country.'
is an issue I think about every day, and I never forget how blessed I am to have been born in this country thanks to my family and the grace of circumstance,” Gomez wrote. “But when I read the news headlines or see debates about immigration rage on social media … I feel afraid for my country.”are often reduced to political debates, without regard to the people most affected by policy, which is why she signed on to executive produce “Living Undocumented.
“It [immigration] is a human issue, affecting real people, dismantling real lives,” Gomez wrote. “How we treat our fellow human beings defines who we are.” “Living Undocumented,” which premiered on Netflix on Wednesday, is a series that follows the lives of eight families residing in the U.S. without papers. In her opinion piece, Gomez introduces some of the main characters: a dreamer named Bari whose family left Israel when she was six months old to escape violence in Tel Aviv, and brothers Pablo and Camilo Dunoyer whose family fled Colombia in 2002 to seek asylum when their family was repeatedly threatened by narcoguerillas.
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