A Trump television ad shows Mexicans swarming over “our southern border.”
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.
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