In his first campaign spot released Monday, the American tycoon and presidential candidate Donald Trump used a video of undocumented migrants in Morocco to discuss plans to build the wall on the US border with Mexico if elected.
30 seconds long, notice, focused on terrorism, Islam and illegal immigration, will air in Iowa and New Hampshire, where the primary will begin next month.
In the spot, a male voice says "stop illegal immigration building a wall on our southern border that Mexico pay" while images of people running towards a wall cross country is.
The video in question corresponds to an incident in May 2014 on the border between Morocco and Melilla, the Spanish enclave in Africa, and had been released at the time by the Ministry of Interior of Spain.
After the reaction provoked in social networks this amalgam, the Trump campaign team said the use of the images was "intentional and chosen to demonstrate the serious impact of an open border and the very real threat facing Americans if not We build a wall immediately and we stop illegal immigration. "
"The main tendentious online media do not understand it, but Americans who want to protect their jobs and their families do," said a spokeswoman for Trump team in an email to AFP.
The last nationwide survey among Republicans Trump gives an intention to vote of 39%, more than double its closest rival, Senator Ted Cruz, who nevertheless leads polls in Iowa.