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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsSo that footage in the Trump ad of people running across the border? Comes from MOROCCO
Yep, and they say using footage from Morroco was "1000% on purpose":
In Republican presidential candidate Donald Trumps first TV ad, released Monday, the candidate renewed his promise to secure the U.S. border with Mexico making his case using footage of people sprinting across the border in Morocco.
Politifact traced the footage, which is paired with narration promising Trump would stop illegal immigration by building a wall on our southern border that Mexico will pay for, to 2014 video of Moroccans crossing over the border into Melilla, a Spanish enclave in North Africa.
Trumps ad makes no mention of the source of the footage, which Politifact reported came from the Italian network RepubblicaTV. For the campaign's implication that the footage showed the U.S. border with Mexico, Politifact slapped the claim with its pants on fire rating.
The Trump campaign wasnt particularly moved by the watchdog organizations findings.
Asked about the footage, Corey Lewandowski, Trumps campaign manager, told NBC News: No shit its not the Mexican border but thats what our country is going to look like. This was 1,000 percent on purpose.
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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/trump-morocco-border-fact-check
blogslut
(38,007 posts)It isn't footage from the US/Mexico border but let's not tell the rubes.
MohRokTah
(15,429 posts)Human101948
(3,457 posts)Trumpo followers are such idiots.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)Buzz Clik
(38,437 posts)muriel_volestrangler
(101,349 posts)More than 200 migrants from sub-Saharan Africa have broken into Spain's North African enclave of Melilla by scaling the border fence.
It is one of the biggest migrant surges into Melilla in recent years.
Many of the migrants suffered cuts scaling the fence. During the incident, migrants threw stones, sticks and bottles at police, officials say.
This month there have been similar mass break-ins in Melilla and Ceuta - another Spanish city in North Africa.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-26382589
"Melilla's formidable border barrier does not deter migrants desperate to get into Europe"
At least 1,000 migrants have tried to storm the border fence between Morocco and the Spanish enclave of Melilla, officials say.
Some 400 migrants - from sub-Saharan African countries - are thought to have successfully scaled the fence, which divides Africa from Europe.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-27601215
BlueMTexpat
(15,371 posts)and Ceuta well. Both are anachronisms as Spanish enclaves in Africa and yet have thriving mixed societies.
Ceuta, in particular used to have a fairly porous border, at least into the 1980s. At the time, there was a requirement for foreign residents of Morocco to have a return visa before they were allowed to leave the country and the visa had to be stamped at a border crossing within three months of its issuance to be considered valid. At the Ceuta crossing in those days, one could drive to the border, park one's car, and take all passports, presumably from passengers, to the window where the visas could be stamped/validated and the occupants of the car were not necessarily controlled or even counted.
I know of an instance where an American woman married to a Moroccan (who was imprisoned after the 1972 coup attempt against then-King Hassan II https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1972_Moroccan_coup_attempt) was able to leave the country with her child in this way. The husband's family - who basically had rights of refusal over the departure of their grandchild - would allow her to leave, but not the child. A mutual friend drove them both to Ceuta, parked the car, walked to the control window alone, and had their passports stamped by officials who didn't even look twice at the passports simply because the man presenting them for the exit stamp was a male US citizen. The assumption was that the woman and child were his wife and child (they had US passports but no return visa). It was a very courageous act on his part; he could have been imprisoned in Morocco had the subterfuge been discovered. But things in Ceuta were pretty casual in those days. In any event, the story ultimately ended happily when the husband was finally released and reunited with his family in the US.
The return visa requirement for foreign residents of Morocco was waived in 2005 and now all that one has to do is to present one's registration card to be allowed to enter and exit freely. http://www.moroccanconsulate.com/visa.cfm
gratuitous
(82,849 posts)Trump will hire top men* to figure out where all the countries on the planet are. He's more of a big picture, global (well, not global-global, you know what I mean) kind of guy.
*Top. Men.
Lucky Luciano
(11,258 posts)kacekwl
(7,021 posts)come on aren't you scared yet. How bout now ?