“He’ll stop illegal immigration by building a wall on our southern border that Mexico will pay for”, the narration claims, while the caption reads “STOP ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION”. The footage originally aired on the Italian television network RepubblicaTV in May 2014.
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When asked by NBC News’s Katy Tur why the campaign featured the Moroccan border, rather than Mexico’s in the controversial ad, Trump campaign manager Corey Lewandowski said “No shit”. They rushed the wall that separates Melilla from the rest of the African continent, according to PolitiFact. “Those who failed to escape the control of the Civil Guard were hanging on the barriers for six hours before being rejected”, the video description reads. It makes no reference to the location.
Trump’s campaign seems to have scrubbed RepubblicaTV’s logo from its footage, which can be viewed below.
Remember that nifty lil’ first campaign ad Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump released on Monday?
The commercial also fails to mention that increased immigration law enforcement and economic conditions within the USA have led to more immigrants leaving the country than there are coming in.
Hope Hicks, a spokeswoman for Trump, told Politifact that she did not know the source of the video and that she does not speak for the production company that made the ad.
Politifact rated the claim, based on the footage from Morocco, that Mexicans are swarming over “our southern border” as “Pants on fire”.
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It was the 14th time since Trump announced his campaign in June that the real estate mogul and former Atlantic City casino tycoon received a “Pants on Fire” rating from PolitiFact. But fact-checkers pointed out that the ad actually shows Moroccans.
