Mexico's President Is Banning Trump’s Anti-Immigration Ads, Saying It’s “Discriminatory” Propaganda
The ads are “hyper-targeted” to reach undocumented immigrants in the US as well as people internationally.
After Trump launched a slew of anti-immigration ads in Mexico, Mexico's first woman president banned them for being "discriminatory foreign propaganda”.
In recent months, the US has rolled this video featuring US Secretary of Homeland Security, Kristi Noem, thanking US president Donald Trump for securing the border and “putting America first”.
The video is part of the Trump’s administration multimillion-dollar campaign to warn migrants from entering the US without documents or breaking the laws, or they will be “hunted down”.
In the video, Noem warned foreigners from immigrating to the US, saying to undocumented immigrants that the US will find them and deport them.
The ads are “hyper-targeted” to reach undocumented immigrants in the US as well as people internationally.
They reflect Trump’s rhetoric on immigration, linking violence and crime to immigration, telling viewers that open borders have flooded communities with “drugs, human trafficking and violent criminals,”
This caused a huge backlash internationally, particularly in Mexico, after the ad was shown during prime-time TV and football matches from mid- to late April.
Several people in Mexico then submitted complaints to Mexico’s anti-discriminatory agency to ban the ads, according to Mexico’s president Claudia Sheinbaum.
Sheinbaum said the government had determined the ad contained “a discriminatory message that violates human dignity and can encourage acts of rejection and violence towards people in a situation of mobility" and asked companies to take it down.
Sheinbaum said she will also submit a petition to Congress to reinstate a ban that prevents the transmission of foreign propaganda.
The ad campaign is just one part of Trump's crack down on immigrants in the US.
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