Trump’s first ad features Morocco, not Mexico

Donald Trump’s new TV ad brings up border security. Real-estate mogul Donald Trump’s campaign said Monday that fact-checkers of its new commercial missed the point of the ad.

According to a report by Moroccan channel 2M, immigration is actually in the opposite direction – from Spain into Morocco, which skyrocketed over the past year.

PolitiFact traced the footage back to the Italian television network RepubblicaTV, it said, which shows Moroccan migrants streaming into Melilla, a Spanish enclave.

Melilla and Ceuta, the two Spanish enclaves located in Africa’s mainland, are the only two land borders between Africa and Europe. About 800 tried to cross the border on May 1st. The video later surfaced on YouTube in a July 2015 post titled, “1,000s of immigrants try to cross the border at once”.

Both the TV station’s logo and a time stamp that are visible in the original footage appear to have been removed from the footage used in the Trump advertisement.

“TRUMP CAMPAIGN MNGR: ‘No (expletive) its not the Mexican border but thats what our country is going to look like if we don’t do anything, ‘” NBC’s Katy Tur tweeted.

PolitiFact rated the campaign ad as trousers on Fire, meaning “the statement is not accurate and makes a ridiculous claim”.

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump’s new television ad shows footage of dozens of people crossing a fence as the narrator mentions the U.S.’s “southern border” with Mexico.

Trump has long called for the deportation of the more than 11 million immigrants living without authorization in the US and to build a wall across the country’s border with Mexico – a wall he would force Mexico to fund. He has stressed that he will allow “good” immigrants to return after a more efficient immigration system is set up.