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Immigration Front-and-Center in Political Ads

I‘m currently working on an article that focuses on political ads and how they portray sanctuary cities. If you see one – send it my way!

As a result, I’m paying more attention to all political ads these days. And this one, which popped up during a commercial break for the NBC Nightly News, particularly caught my eye:

This idea that a vote for “Any Democrat” (the title of the ad on youtube) is a vote for open borders comes straight from the President, who has tweeted:

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Vox has investigated Trump’s rhetoric of Democratic support for open borders. The title pretty much sums up the conclusions: “Anatomy of a lie.”

-KitJ