PNN – The US government’s anti-immigration campaign went so far that Mexican national television aired a promotional video featuring the US Secretary of Homeland Security during football games and prime-time programs, warning people who intend to immigrate to the United States illegally: Criminals are not welcome.
According to the report of Pakistan News Network from the newspaper El Pais, in February, US Homeland Security Secretary Christie Noem posted a video on social media announcing the launch of a multi-million dollar domestic and international advertising campaign to warn illegal immigrants.
Just two months later, these ads are being broadcast on Mexican national television during soccer matches and prime-time programs.
Noem says in this advertisement: If you are planning to come to the United States illegally, don’t even think about it. Let me be clear, if you come to our country and break our laws, we will prosecute you. Criminals are not welcome.
In this video, of which various versions have been released, Noem, standing in front of the American flag, praises President Donald Trump and warns that the US government has promised to carry out the “largest deportation operation” in American history and will “prosecute” anyone who enters the country illegally.
He also threatened: President Trump has a clear message: If you are here illegally, we will find you and we will deport you. You can never come back.
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Meanwhile, a number of Mexican users on social media have expressed surprise that the country’s television channels and audiovisual platforms are broadcasting official propaganda from a foreign government, and have considered this a threat to the country’s citizens.
Jenaro Villamil, head of Mexico’s state-run Public Broadcasting System (SPR), criticized the country’s television channel for broadcasting “discriminatory and hateful messages against Mexican immigrants.”
The Minister of Homeland Security recently traveled to Mexico (March 28) and met with the country’s President Claudia Sheinbaum for about two hours.
Noem described the meeting, which focused on reviewing measures needed to curb illegal immigration to the United States, as “very productive.”
Trump has promised to carry out the largest mass deportation campaign in American history and to discourage immigration, especially from Latin American countries.
This is despite the fact that human rights organizations have repeatedly condemned the US government’s inhumane treatment of the immigrant community.
Trump’s promised mass deportations have raised concerns in Mexico, where Mexicans make up about half of the 11 million illegal immigrants in the United States and whose remittances are equivalent to 4 percent of the country’s gross domestic product, reaching an estimated record of $65 billion in 2024.
Following Trump’s inauguration, the Mexican President, in response to the US government’s anti-immigration measures and expressing the importance of immigrants in the country, assured that the United States “wouldn’t be what it is” without Mexican immigrants.