At first, the message from the US government seems subtle. Set against a soft melody, a roughly 45-second radio ad running in Guatemala features a conversation between two men -- one who wants to join a caravan to travel to the US with his child and another trying to talk him out of it.
Roxana Rivera, 28, told CNN last month that she and her 6-year-old daughter had left Honduras after back-to-back November hurricanes destroyed her home and everything in it. Word back home, Rivera said, was that the US was now allowing people with children to freely cross the border -- which wasn't entirely true. She heard that on the news, she said. Relatives in the US relayed the same information. Other migrants have similar stories.
Border Patrol video shows two children dropped over border wall 01:09Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas released a stern statement Wednesday condemning the smuggling incident, saying:"The inhumane way smugglers abuse children while profiting off parents' desperation is criminal and morally reprehensible.
"Different administrations have used ads, social media ads. But are those ads really penetrating?" said Democratic Rep. Henry Cuellar of Texas."The messages that are winning the day in the minds and hearts of immigrants, migrants, is ... word on the street and smuggler messaging." "I think those ads can't hurt. I think it's important that people understand the realities of the journey. That may make some folks think twice.
New video shows conditions inside border facility 02:29"If I'm hearing anything it's not about accurate information they have heard. It's about the disinformation they've come across," Lindy Morrison, executive director of Seguimos Adelante, a non-profit that supports asylum seekers, told CNN."To them it's not disinformation until they get here.
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Interesting that the article says nothing about Norma Torres exchange with Salvadoran president
First order to come to open borders now complaining
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Once again nobody fears this country.
Really don’t matter when moron JoeBiden says “come on over” now does it!
Dont know why it took so long to get this PSA out. The U.S. is literally the worst hit place in terms of Covid.
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