Washington DC - Two top officials within President Donald Trump's White House on Thursday reiterated their anti-immigration politics using video of Spanish exclave Ceuta, where hundreds of migrants recently flocked from Morocco.
AFP reporters in Ceuta saw a stream of adults and children entering the town along Morocco's northern coast after having swum there, with the president of Ceuta, Juan Vivas, saying Wednesday that 1,500 migrants had entered the territory over the past few days, the most since 2021.
White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller, a chief architect of Trump's anti-migration crackdown, shared video of the migration and compared it with policies of the rival Democratic party.
"Democrats will see your home trampled and stolen by invaders and they will rejoice," he wrote in a post on X accompanying the footage.
White House Communications Director Steven Cheung, another top Trump official, shared a Fox News clip of Ceuta on X and wrote: "This is what happened under [former president Joe] Biden. Thank goodness President Trump was elected so none of this would ever happen under his watch."
Trump won a second term in the White House after running on an explicitly anti-immigration campaign and has worked to make good on his campaign promises to expel millions of undocumented immigrants.
The aggressive campaign, however, has drawn a political backlash that could impact the midterm elections in November.