An AI-generated video from the US embassy in Mexico encouraging migrants to “self-deport” has sparked disbelief and outrage online. The video posted this week on official embassy social media accounts depicts a group of men wearing black caps and sporting tattoos performing a kind of traditional Mexican ballad known as a corrido. Last year, the then US secretary of homeland security, Kristi Noem, launched a number of video ads urging migrants to self-deport or stay at home. The video ads were played on Mexican TV. “We are going to change the law to prohibit foreign governments from carrying out political and ideological propaganda in our country,” Sheinbaum said in a news conference.

Source: The Guardian March 28, 2026 13:30 UTC