Mexico’s Sheinbaum bans ‘foreign propaganda’ after US anti-migrant ad

https://www.semafor.com/article/04/22/2025/sheinbaum-bans-us-propaganda?utm_campaign=semaforreddit

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  1. From Semafor’s Jeronimo Gonzalez:

    Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said foreign “propaganda” would be banned after US anti-migrant ads ran on national TV.

    The commercials showed US Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem warning that anyone crossing the US-Mexico border illegally would be prosecuted and deported.

    Washington’s tough measures have pushed illegal crossings to their lowest level since the 1960s, while Mexican troops — deployed in response to pressure from the White House — have prevented many from reaching the border in the first place.

    [Read the full story here.](https://www.semafor.com/article/04/22/2025/sheinbaum-bans-us-propaganda?utm_campaign=semaforreddit)

  3. Wish the US would do that. But now we’ve got calls coming from inside the house as well.

  5. US: runs anti-migrant ad in Mexico

    Mexico: ‘This isn’t Fox News, sweetie. This is telenovela land. We cry over love triangles, not your fear-mongering. Pack it up, Karen.

  6. The Trump admin will label this as terrorism, just wait.

  7. She has turned into a punching bag for trump no backbone

  8. Really want this in Canada.  I wish that our media wasn’t mostly owned by a MAGA aligned investment group.

  10. When I read “propaganda” and the outrage, I was thinking something like the Nazi’s “The Eternal Jew” and I was horrified.

    (And isn’t it a sad state of affairs that I can find it completely believable our government would do this.)

    But then I read the article and apparently all the commercial said was anyone crossing the border illegally would be prosecuted and deported.

    Is there something more to this? Because just from the description I wouldn’t classify this as propaganda if that’s all it was.

  11. Half of me thinks that they did this hoping for outrage, hoping that they’d get a bunch of free airing on CNN for their “anti-migrant ad” which is really just an advertisement for the Trump agenda and other self-congratulatory nonsense.

  12. Jfc they were spending taxpayer money on fascist ads in mexico? Where’s doge?

  14. I wish the United States would do that. Unfortunately, the Republican Party in the United States has fully embraced Russian propaganda. They don’t seem smart enough to do the research.

  15. Mexican here. I had the video appear just once, on YouTube, about 10 days ago. Immediately reported it as hate speech and haven’t seen it since. Yesterday it was a big deal over at /r/mexico (see https://redd.it/1k481ek), because it had aired on live TV over the weekend. The ban was proposed within a few hours.

    Sheinbaum is rather popular in Mexico as a whole, but not so much among conservatives who make up the majority of Mexican redditors; but our Northern neighbors just make things so easy. This is an effortless win for her.

  21. You should also ban trump and anyone in his cabinet from stepping foot on your soil.

  23. Trump playing all the dictator cards. Running ads in foreign countries now. A nice idea he got from Putin.

  25. You see that graph? went from 302,000 people in Jan 2024 to 7k in 2025.

    Thats terrible, i don’t know how the US will survive.

  26. For most people on Reddit, whether they think banning foreign propaganda is good or an Orwellian attack on speech depends entirely on how they feel about the message being banned.

  27. My husband said he saw an ad on a YouTube video about deportations too

  28. Too bad the US can’t ban propaganda, maga would’ve went away eons ago. Too much money to be made by lying and fleecing people here.

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