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dixiegrrrrl

(60,010 posts)
Mon Jan 4, 2016, 04:05 PM Jan 2016

Trump ad to illustrate Mexicans streaming across US border is actually a scene shot over Morocco

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.

The clear suggestion is that the footage is of the "southern border" between the United States and Mexico. But it’s not -- it’s 5,000 miles away, in a small Spanish enclave on the mainland of Morocco.

PolitiFact was able to trace the footage back to the Italian television network RepubblicaTV. On May 3, 2014, the network posted footage of Moroccans crossing the border into Melilla, one of two enclaves on the Moroccan coast that are held by Spain. Migrants who cross the border there are essentially entering territory held by a European Union nation, even though they are still on the African continent. (It can also be seen posted by a YouTube user here.)
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/statements/2016/jan/04/donald-trump/donald-trumps-first-tv-ad-shows-migrants-southern-/
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ChisolmTrailDem

(9,463 posts)
1. t-Rump's peeps won't care at all that he had to use footage from Bumfuk, Egypt because...
Mon Jan 4, 2016, 04:10 PM
Jan 2016

...there is none from the US/Mexico border to use to prove his point. They just will not care, or even acknowledge the clip is from Morocco.

guillaumeb

(42,641 posts)
4. Why are you ultra-Liberal America haters so obsessed with the truth?
Mon Jan 4, 2016, 04:43 PM
Jan 2016

A bunch of brown people trying to mix with white people is a frightening thing anywhere it happens.

lpbk2713

(42,763 posts)
5. They always try to pull this chit ... and they always get caught.
Mon Jan 4, 2016, 05:00 PM
Jan 2016



This was probably supposed to have been released for public consumption
in October but whoever was responsible didn't read the entire memo.

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