Trump Runs Incendiary Immigration Ads in South Carolina
As the New York Times reports, Donald Trump’s campaign has released a television ad focused on the 2008 murder of a Black teenage athlete in Los Angeles by an undocumented immigrant, who was later sentenced to death for the murder. The ad features Jamiel Shaw Sr., the teenager’s father, who supports Trump and has embraced a hard-line stand against those in the United States illegally. The ad “is in some ways evocative of the well-known `Willie Horton‘ ad that ran against the 1988 Democratic presidential nominee, Gov. Michael Dukakis of Masschusetts. That ad, which featured a black man who killed a white person after being released from prison under a Dukakis administration program, was overtly racial; the Trump ad does not mention the nationality or background of the man convicted in the 2008 killing.”
KJ