Sacramento, California – Sacramento, California (AFP) – The migration of the United States and the customs has been found to spend millions of dollars on television advertisements in selected metro areas throughout the country. Migration In President Donald Trump Collective deportation efforts.
The narrator says: “I have entered the right to protect and serve, to preserve your family, your city, safe,” as the pictures of the targeted cities and ice agents who throw people move across the screen. “But in the cities of the haven, you are asked to stand while the dangerous illegitimate people are walking for free.”
The campaign – which is broadcast in more than ten cities, including Chicago, Saytel and Atlanta – is part of the $ 30 billion ICE initiative to employ 10,000 other deportations by the end of the year to deport Supercharge. Money is part of The amount of 76.5 billion dollars by the Republican Administration of Trump For ice-an increase of 10 times in its current budget-as a part of the sweeping, with a million dollars Tax exemptions and lowering the bill Age in July.
Ice already served Bonuses up to $ 50,000 for new employees And other benefits such as payment of tuition fees as they seek a quick employment.
While some parts of the federal government close As a result of the failure of Congress to pass the spending measure last week, ice ads reflect that payment for collective deportation is the top priority of the Trump administration, still flowing with criticism.
Ads open with a video for everyone who wore every familiar metro and the sound of the narrator announces, for example, “attention, law enforcement in Miami.” Moreover, spots are identical, supporting officers “to join the ice and help us get worse than the worst. Drug dealers. Gang members. Predators,” according to a review of ads on AdIMPACT for advertising tracking service.
The 30 -second sites began in mid -September in Albukirk, New Mexico; Boston Chicago Denver New York; Philadelphia Sacramento, California; Seattle and Washington, DC, in addition to the list a week ago: Atlanta; Dallas El Passo, Texas; Houston Miami Solly Lake City and San Antonio.
As of Friday, the total ads spending reached $ 5.7 million, as most of them have been spent since mid -September is $ 85,745 in the Seattle region. However, Atlanta witnessed more than last week, $ 794.084, according to AdIMPACT.
It was not clear why ICE targeted these sites, not others. There is no record definition of a protected authority, although it generally refers to cities or countries that limit their cooperation with ice. Some cities, not all of them appear in the list of cities of the Ministry of Justice that “This impedes the enforcement of federal immigration laws.”
When asked in an AP email to explain the reason for choosing specific areas as advertising goals, officials of the Ministry of Internal Security refused to provide an explanation. Instead, they answered a press statement on September 16, near the beginning of the advertising campaign, and informed that it had received more than 150,000 requests and extends 18,000 temporary work offerings.
Some cities where ads, especially Boston and Chicago, have been subjected to frequent criticisms by the Trump administration for their policies that limit how much they can work with federal immigration enforcement. Ice Immigration campaign launched In each of those cities. Chicago local officials were especially explicit against influencing enforcement.
Albukirk is among the smallest urban areas where advertisements are broadcast, although the city’s mayor, Tim Keeler, was an explicit discount of immigration policy in the Trump administration. In July, Keeler signed an executive order preventing the city’s employees from helping the federal authorities in implementing civil immigration “unless required by law.”
AP arrived at the police stations in the areas where the ads were working. Most departments either did not respond or said that they did not comment on the actions of external agencies. A few, including Sadmanto and Miami, said they had not noticed any of their officers leaving for ICE or DHS positions.
Four markets where ads play in Texas, including San Antonio.
Danny Diaz, head of the city’s police officers, said he had seen the advertisements and was concerned about the potential recruits who might consider joining the city police station who join Ice.
“We cannot compete with a $ 50,000 signature bonus,” Diaz said. “I think the younger generation will jump on it.”
He said that government closure can reduce the hopes of recruiting ice.
“They turn a blind eye to federal employees, and I do not think that individuals want to leave one department to go to a federal agency when they do not know whether they will receive a check or not,” he said, referring to the break in the financing that led to the federal law enforcement employees without pay.
Captain John Walker at the Philadelphia police said it was too early to know whether the advertising campaign has an impact on the recruitment of the city. Instead, he suggested that the ads looked more guideline towards reassuring viewers that the Trump administration was dealing with illegal immigration.
“It is a psychological feeling. You want to know that there are policemen there because it makes you feel satisfied,” said Walker, who is responsible for recruiting the Philadelphia police. “That’s all, enhancing the belief that they are doing something.”
Blitz comes as law enforcement departments are fighting all over the country to meet employment demands.
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