Meanwhile, Fox News and NBC also decided to stop airing the Trump campaign’s anti-immigration ad.
Fact checking Trump campaign’s anti-immigration ad
The Trump campaign’s ad featured Luis Bracamontes, a Mexican immigrant who entered the U.S. illegally and was sentenced to death for killing two police officers in California. The ad deceitfully blamed Democrats for allowing Bracamontes enter and stay in the country.
According to the AP Fact Check, Bracamontes entered the U.S. in June 1996, during the Clinton administration. Three months later, Bracamontes was convicted on drug charges and was deported in 1997 after completing his sentence.
In March 2001, during the Bush administration, Bracamontes was again arrested on drug charges. It was uncertain as to when he re-entered the country illegally.
Sacramento County Sheriff Scott Jones told AP that Bracamontes was deported four times before he killed Sacramento County sheriff’s Deputy Danny Oliver and Placer County sheriff’s Detective Michael Davis Jr.
