Donald Trump’s first TV ad shows migrants ‘at the southern border,’ but they’re actually in Morocco

In a new television ad — his campaign’s first — Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump shows footage of dozens of people swarming over a border fence. But the footage isn’t as it seems.

About halfway through the ad, a narrator says of Trump, “He’ll stop illegal immigration by building a wall on our southern border that Mexico will pay for.” Video footage shows dozens of people streaming across the border, as if they were ants fleeing an anthill.

By

C. Eugene Emery Jr.

PolitiFact correspondent

January 4, 2016

By

Louis Jacobson

Chief Correspondent

January 4, 2016