The ads are part of an unusual, multimillion-dollar initiative paid for with US taxpayer dollars aimed at discouraging illegal migration.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on Tuesday hit back at the Trump administration’s “discriminatory” mass deportation ads by banning all U.S. “propaganda” with anti-migrant sentiment. Her response came after the U.S. government broadcast a threatening video of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem on Mexican national television.