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GOP candidates ad yanked from airwaves due to images of illegal aliens crossing the border

A Republican campaign ad in Arizona that has been airing since the beginning of the year was abruptly yanked from television this week due to video of illegal border crossings.

Karrin Taylor Robson, a Republican immigration hawk running for governor of Arizona, was notified Monday by FS1, a subsidiary of Fox Sports, that her ad could no longer air until she proved migrants shown crossing the border in it were in fact illegal immigrants. The channel informed her campaign that it must supply "an affidavit that the ad was filmed along the border, as well as proof of the citizenship status of any individuals depicted," she said in a statement.

Taylor Robson, one of the frontrunners for the Republican nomination, said the decision was "nuts."

"The station expects Arizonans to believe individuals that our cameras captured crossing the border nowhere near a legal port of entry, and being taken into custody by Border Patrol, may have been American citizens? This is nuts," Taylor Robson said.

Nah, the powers in control don’t expect Arizonans to believe that, they simply don’t want them to know about it in the first place.

For now, you can watch the video on YouTube — with Zuckerberg’s permission, of course.