“My hope is that I see change,” Gomez said in a behind the scenes video for Living Undocumented.
started streaming on Wednesday, Selena Gomez said she wanted to use her celebrity platform to speak out about the plight of undocumented immigrants living in the United States.
“My grandparents are immigrants and to just think about the life that I’ve been given and how blessed I am,” Gomez says in the video. “My hope is that I see change.”In this latest video, Gomez has a roundtable discussion with three young people who are featured in the docuseries about what their lives have been like since filming stopped.
Bar, whose parents came to the US from Israel in 2001 and who did not include her last name in the docuseries because she didn’t want to be easily identified, said she was robbed after cameras stopped following her around for the docuseries. She didn’t report the robbery, however, because she didn’t want to be on the police radar.
All three teenagers expressed a common feeling of fear and uncertainty about their own futures in the United States, unsure of what’s still to come.Bar with her parents, Ron and Karen, and her two other siblings.executive producer and director Aaron Saidman told BuzzFeed News that in making the documentary and interacting with its subjects he found himself “renewed by their spirit.”
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