Mexico’s President Wants to Ban U.S. Ads Warning Against Migration

Mexico’s president said Monday that her government has asked television stations to pull a commercial produced by the Trump administration warning against undocumented migration to the United States.

Calling the ad “discriminatory,” President Claudia Sheinbaum also vowed to send legislation to Congress that would ban the commercial and others that are similar.

In the ad, which has aired periodically on major TV stations here, including during the broadcast of two major soccer games over the weekend, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem shares a message that she says comes from President Trump.

“If you are considering entering America illegally, don’t even think about it,” Noem says in English, her words translated beneath her. “If you come to our country and break our laws, we will hunt you down. Criminals are not welcome in the United States.”

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A government agency tasked with preventing discrimination received so many complaints that it sent a letter to broadcasters last week asking them to remove the ad, which it said “contains a discriminatory message, violates human dignity, and may encourage acts of violence” against migrants.

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