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Trump Campaign Ad on U.S.-Mexico Border Actually Shows Moroccan Border

HeadlineJan 05, 2016

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has released his first campaign ad. The ad vows Trump will impose a temporary ban on Muslims entering the United States, “cut the head off ISIS” and address immigration across the U.S.-Mexico border.

Narrator: “And he’ll stop illegal immigration by building a wall on our southern border that Mexico will pay for.”

Over that section describing the U.S.-Mexico border, video footage shows scores of people streaming over a border. But PolitiFact reveals the footage actually shows people crossing the border of a small Spanish enclave in Morocco. Asked about the discrepancy, Trump’s campaign manager told NBC, “No [expletive], it’s not the Mexican border, but that’s what our country is going to look like. This was 1,000 percent on purpose.”

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