Immigration, foreign policy, and patriotism are among the top themes in ads airing in Nevada and South Carolina sponsored by GOP candidates, according to data collected by the Political TV Ad Archive available for download here.

This ad sponsored by the Trump campaign, one of the first he released in January, hits Ted Cruz hard, using footage from Fox News where he is accused of  supporting legislation that would have allowed “undocumented immigrants to remain in the U.S. permanently and obtain legal status.” This claim has also come up in the debates, with Marco Rubio making similar accusations.

Factcheck.org has gone through the tortured history behind this legislation; the problem, points out reporter Robert Farley, is that to judge the claim one would need to know “Cruz’s motive for legislation he proposed two years ago.” Cruz claims he was making a maneuver, “calling the bluff” of supporters of the bill, the so-called “Gang of eight”:

Cruz has certainly been consistent in his opposition to a path to citizenship for those now living in the country illegally. And he now says definitely that he also would not support legalization of those immigrants. And as we said earlier, we’ll leave it up to you to decide if he once supported legalization as a political compromise, and now disavows it, or if he was merely employing a legislative ploy to expose the motivations of his opponents.

 

In this ad from the Cruz campaign, which has been airing in South Carolina, the campaign discusses a case Cruz handled as solicitor general of Texas, where he fought the World Court, which had issued a stay of execution for an illegal immigrant who had been convicted of murder. The World Court’s actions, says the ad, were an “attack on American sovereignty.” In this fact check of Cruz’s biography, The Washington Post affirms that Cruz did indeed fight this case–known as Medellin v. Texas–and win it, despite the Bush Administration’s support of the international court at the time. Jeffrey Toobin goes into more detail in The New Yorker.

In this ad which has gotten airplay in both Nevada and South Carolina, Rubio’s campaign goes on attack against Clinton on foreign policy issues, and proclaims if elected he’ll win the war on ISIS.

To see what Democrats are focusing on in South Carolina and Nevada, see this post. And to read more about new data download options from the Political TV Ad Archive, click here.