Trump campaign ad shows southern border using footage of Morocco
January 06, 2016 02:11
Republican presidential front- runner Donald Trump's gaffe-prone election campaign has apparently suffered another one with his new television advertisement using a wrong footage to back his strong views on illegal immigration.
The ad shows people rushing towards a border fence as the narrator says he "will stop illegal immigration" from Mexico but the footage used is of a Spanish enclave in Morocco.
A prominent fact-checking organisation Politifact, citing footage from May 2014 on an Italian television network, wrote yesterday that migrants shown were not crossing into Arizona or Texas -- but into the Spanish enclave of Melilla on the African coast.
The footage shows Moroccans fleeing. The ad features a narrator who says of Trump, "He'll stop illegal immigration by building a wall on our southern border that Mexico will pay for," as various images of people stream across a border fence.