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The singer also expressed that she hopes the students are moved, \"to be everything that you want to be.\"

Gomez has used her platform before to share more about her family's background, and she also produced an eight-part Netflix docu-series, \"Living Undocumented,\" about immigration.

In an essay for Time magazine published in October 2019, Gomez wrote about her aunt crossing from Mexico over the U.S. border in the back of a truck in the 1970s. Her grandparents came to the United States next, and her father was then born in Texas, she said in the essay.

\"Over the past four decades, members of my family have worked hard to gain United States citizenship,\" she explained in the piece. \"Undocumented immigration 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.\"

She also explained in the essay that she feels a \"responsibility\" to use her voice and huge platform for \"people who are too afraid to speak.\"

\"When I signed on to executive-produce a show about undocumented immigrants, I couldn't help but anticipate the criticisms I might face,\" she wrote. \"But the truth is, the worst criticism I can imagine is still nothing compared to what undocumented immigrants face every day.\"

Read more about her thoughts on immigration here.

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