Does Christina Hagan's Campaign Ad Show the Mexico

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Does Christina Hagan's Campaign Ad Show the Mexico-United States Border?

An Ohio Republican candidate recycles a misrepresentation of the border used by President Donald Trump.

Can the righties who continually decry the state of education in our country please explain how so many of your counterparts, big mouths expounding incoherently at the end of the bar, fall for this kind of bullshit?

What quality of education, back in the day, created a citizenry so easily fooled, so critical thinking impaired and so unaware of how
ill-equipped they are to rip today's universities, today's students?

Taking the worst examples of educational failure, while ignoring their own obvious shortcomings, and assuming a widespread problem IS another 'problem'....mostly of self-righteous righties. Hey, that phrase rings true. I think I'll use it more often.

EVERY generation believes they are smarter, better educated, than the ones before them, the present ones or the ones that will come after. It's a conceit born of slothful thinking and it is belied by the achievements of each generation.

There's also no small amount of envy coming from people who couldn't gain entry to the schools that they rip.

Think about that the next time you read some semi-literate incoherent, fact-challenged word salad post, spiced up with a nice 'sauce' of grievance nurturing and resentment.

CLAIM

Christina Hagan's campaign ad contains footage depicting the U.S.-Mexico border.

RATING

False

ORIGIN

In late 2017, Ohio Republican congressional candidate Christina Hagan released a campaign ad that uses an anti-immigrant trope also employed in an ad for President Donald Trump’s campaign.

The commercial contains footage of a crowd of immigrants crossing over a wall, alongside the words “SECURE OUR BORDERS”:

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/hagan-ad-me...1281817615

The area shown is not identified. As the footage plays, Hagan — who serves in the state House of Representatives — can be heard saying:


I’ll fight to secure our borders. We must stop the flow of drugs and illegal immigrants into this country.

But the footage does not show the U.S.-Mexico border; instead, this is footage aired in May 2014 on an Italian network, RepubblicaTV, of Moroccan immigrants crossing into the Spanish city of Melilla, which is located in northwest Africa and near Morocco.

The footage was also used in January 2016 to promote then-candidate Trump’s run for the GOP presidential nomination.

His spokesperson at the time, Hope Hicks, said of the video:


The use of this footage was intentional and selected to demonstrate the severe impact of an open border and the very real threat Americans face if we do not immediately build a wall and stop illegal immigration. The biased main stream media doesn’t understand, but Americans who want to protect their jobs and their families do.

But the idea of an “open border” teeming with immigrants from Mexico runs counter to data; the Pew Research Center found in 2015 that more of them were leaving the U.S. compared to the amount of immigrants entering the country.

Deportations also rose, statistically, during former President Barack Obama’s administration, but that was due in part to a change in the definition of “deportation” that originated while his predecessor, George W. Bush, was in office.

During his campaign, Trump accused Mexico of sending “rapists” and “drugs” to the U.S. and vowed that it would pay for a “border wall” (ignoring the fact that there is already a wall at the border). That promise spawned several dubious allegations online, including photographs used to falsely accuse Mexico of having its own “wall” on its southern border.

Hagan is running in the GOP primary in Ohio’s 16th Congressional district. Current Rep. Jim Renacci, who is also a Republican, is leaving the seat to pursue a run for the Senate. We contacted her campaign seeking comment on the campaign ad.

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