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A couple of weeks ago VivirLatino reported on the 35-second Internet ad produced by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee. The political ad was meant to attack the Republican agenda on domestic security, in doing so, it compared undocumented immigrants crossing the border with bazooka-toting terrorists and Osama bin Laden. DSCC quickly took the ad off the website once the ad was heavily criticized by the Hispanics community.

As mid-term elections are quickly approaching, the ad gives an inside view of the type of political ads being used this campaign season. In fact, we should expect more of them in the coming months from both Democrats and Republicans who currently running for the House and the Senate.

Earlier this week, the Star-Telegram, reported that the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) has also sponsored an anti-immigration ad criticizing Stephen Laffey, who is challenging incumbent Sen. Lincoln Chafee for the Republican nomination in Rhode Island. The ad attacks Laffey, Cranston mayor, for permitting the police to accept identification cards issued by the embassies of Guatemala and Mexico as legal identification. The political ad was also viewed as being offensive, on Tuesday, the Democratic National Committee’s Hispanic Caucus called on the NRSC to stop airing its ad.

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