The clip was posted by an Italian TV network in May 2014 and is of Moroccans going into Melilla. Trump ad uses footage from Morocco, not Mexican border

Donald Trump's new TV ad is not quite what it seems. Footage that is implied to be from the U.S. border with Mexico is actually from more than 5,000 miles away, in Morocco.

According to PolitiFact, which gave the footage a "pants on fire" rating, the video of people racing to a wall is used while the narrator says, "He'll stop illegal immigration by building a wall on our southern border that Mexico will pay for.”


But it isn’t from Mexico. According to PolitiFact, the clip was posted by an Italian TV network in May 2014 and is of Moroccans going into Melilla, an autonomous North African enclave held by Spain.

Trump's campaign said Monday that the use of the Moroccan clip was "intentional."

"The use of this footage was intentional and selected to demonstrate the severe impact of an open border and the very real threat Americans face if we do not immediately build a wall and stop illegal immigration," spokeswoman Hope Hicks said. "The biased mainstream media doesn’t understand, but Americans who want to protect their jobs and their families do."