Mexico instructs broadcasters to ban Kristi Noem’s ad on illegal immigration

Published April 25, 2025 12:05pm ET



Mexico is calling on broadcasters to ban a series of Department of Homeland Security ads that feature Secretary Kristi Noem dissuading migrants from illegally crossing the border into the United States.

The ads, which aired during a Mexican soccer game, showed men being put in handcuffs and placed in police cars and migrants crossing the dangerous Rio Grande and scaling the border wall.

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