Republican Kidnappers. Blistering new truthful Ad that's pissed off the Orange Shitgibbon

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SALON

This ad hits a nerve because it's true

CK SMITH
Thu, June 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM CDT2

A new ad from the Progress Action Fund dramatizes a nightmare too many still face: masked ICE agents drag away a young woman mid-date. “She looks like one of them,” says a fictional congressman, before declaring she’s being sent to prison in El Salvador. Her date shouts after them: “She was born here. She’s a citizen.”

The video, which has blown up across social media, isn’t subtle, but it doesn’t have to be. It taps into a very real climate where immigration status is judged on sight, not fact. And while some critics dismiss it as over-the-top fearmongering, the truth is harder to ignore: U.S. citizens are being wrongfully detained by ICE.

This isn’t hyperbole. It’s already happened — and more than once.


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https://www.salon.com/2025/06/19/this-ad-hits-a-nerve-because-its-true/?in_brief=true

UPDATE WITH NAMES…

In April, Juan Carlos Lopez-Gomez, a 20-year-old American born in Georgia, was arrested in Florida. Despite providing a birth certificate and multiple forms of ID, he was held for days because local authorities flagged him to ICE who insisted he “matched a profile.”

In January, Chicago community organizers allege that up to 22 people — some legal residents, others full citizens — were wrongfully swept up in workplace ICE raids earlier this summer.

And in a now-infamous case from over a decade ago, Davino Watson, a U.S. citizen from New York, spent over three years in ICE custody. The government later admitted it had detained the wrong person.

These aren’t isolated incidents. They’re symptoms of an enforcement system that increasingly prioritizes suspicion over status, and optics over due process.

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https://www.newsweek.com/democrat-ad-republican-kidnaps-girlfriend-ice-2087974

Republicans Kidnap Latina Girlfriend in New Democratic Ad

Published Jun 19, 2025 at 1:18 PM EDT

A pro-Democrat PAC has released an ad showing a fictional Republican lawmaker and masked men kidnapping an American citizen while on a date with her boyfriend.

Newsweek reached out to the Progress Action Fund via email for comment.

The Context

The Progress Action Fund, a group targeting Republicans in swing districts that published similar ads during the 2024 election, frequently portrays a generic "Republican congressman" interfering with actors' personal lives in an attempt to reach new audiences.

The group was founded by former Obama administration staffers, and its ads received over 500 million views across swing states in the 2024 presidential election.