Emir Olivares and Alonso Urrutia
La Jornada newspaper
Tuesday, April 22, 2025, p. 9
President Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo informed that she will send to Congress an initiative to prohibit, by law, the dissemination of foreign propaganda in Mexico with discriminatory messages. His decision is given before the controversy for the transmission in audiovisual media of the country of the antimigracy campaign of the administration of Donald Trump.
The president expressed her disagreement with the Espot – deputy in recent weeks on national open television at schedules with the highest audience, as in digital platforms – because It has very high discriminatory content
.
In yesterday’s morning, a question about the multimillionaire Washington campaign – which criminalizes undocumented migrants -, the chief of the Executive explained that with the initiative it intends to replenish in the Federal Telecommunications and Radio Law Peña Nieto.
That lagoon in the law, he highlighted, was used by the White House to hire the campaign directly with the media, such as the Televisa company.
It is part of the reforms that we are going to send today or tomorrow; They will be sent to Congress so that no foreign government, no entity of any foreign government can pay, because the issue is that they are paying to disseminate these ads, this propaganda that has a discriminatory message.
In the announcement – which is broadcast in Mexico since April 3 – appears the Secretary of Internal Security of the White House, Kristi Noem, who warns: “If you are a foreign criminal considering entering the United States illegallydon’t even think about it. ”And, in line with Trump’s antimigration policy, threatens to persecute and deport them.
Discard media sanction
The federal president ruled out the dealers who agreed with Washington this diffusion, because she clarified that it is not prohibited by law, but confided that the media be sensitive and stop projecting those messages.
He cited the article that was eliminated in 2014: The concessionaires and permit holders of broadcasting and television in the country may not transmit political, ideological or commercial propagand
.
Sheinbaum insisted on the need to replace that prohibition in the law. It should not be; Let’s say, if a city in the world wants to promote its tourism, its culture, it is a very different thing from a paid advertisement that disseminates discriminatory messages
.
It will be the second initiative that the president sends to the Congress in her sexennium against the White House actions. In February, he presented a proposal to modify the Constitution with which any attempt at foreign intervention is expressly prohibited. This was given within the framework of Trump’s statement to Mexican cartels as terrorist organizations
.
The head of the Executive said that on April 15 the National Council to prevent discrimination and the General Directorate of Radio, Television and Cinematography – both dependent on the Ministry of the Interior – sent a letter to the media, which made public, in which they were Invite
To remove that announcement from the air.
The spot contains a discriminatory message that threatens human dignity and that can promote acts of rejection or violence towards people in mobility
indicates the letter.
However, he regretted, so far the dealers have not attended the exhort.
Secretary of Security Kristi Noem give an undocumented // anticipates that Espots will spread in Mexico and other countries
Of the writing
The United States Internal Security Department (DHS) indicated on Monday that it will disseminate new ads here and in other countries in which the requirement of the illegal foreigners
whom he describes as rapists, murderers and pedophiles
to self -support and do not enter without papers in US territory.
“The Secretary (Kristi Internal Security) Noem reported that there will be new national and international billionaire ads exposing the atrocious crimes of foreigners illegal criminals and warning others who leave the United States or otherwise they will be fined a thousand dollars per day, imprisoned and deported. Foreigners are urged illegal To download and use the One CBP Home application to self -transport voluntarily before they stop them and prevent them from returning to the United States, ”says the DHS text.
“Pedartas. Violators. Killers. These are just some of the illegal They have been fined, imprisoned and deported thanks to the president (Donald) Trump, ”said Noem.
“President Trump and I have a clear message for those in our country illegally: Go now. If they do not self -support, we will persecute them, we will arrest and deport. Download today the app Free CBP Home to self -bear you, ”continues the text.
“This series of ads will be broadcast on television and on the Internet in the United States and other countries. They will be disseminated in several languages. The ads will be hyper -directed, even through social networks, text messages and digital media, to reach foreign criminals illegal They hide from order forces in the United States.
The ads are also aimed at an international audience to deter any immigrant from trying illegally to cross the United States
ends the DHS, which includes a league to see online ads online illegally
to self -lead when entering the appunder the promise that doing so can return later with documents.
