Company used video of Corridor of Fame participant Brian Dawkins to point out readiness for border safety.

The Nationwide Soccer League (NFL) has requested the Division of Homeland Safety (DHS) to cease utilizing a video of a retired star participant on social media, after the company used highlights of his profession to point out its readiness to guard the US border in opposition to a purported caravan of immigrants that was heading in direction of it.

“The league has requested the DHS take down the video,” NFL spokesman Brian McCarthy mentioned on Monday.

The video, posted on Sunday, exhibits Brian Dawkins, a former participant for the Philadelphia Eagles and Denver Broncos, strolling out earlier than a sport and chanting “the time has come”. It then contains a montage of him tackling opposing gamers on the sector, set to heavy metallic music. The DHS submit consists of the caption: “Our time has come.”

Dawkins was a extremely celebrated NFL participant who retired in 2011 after enjoying 16 seasons within the NFL.

US President Donald Trump has made immigration a central a part of his second time period in workplace, terming the influx of migrants throughout the border from Mexico an “invasion” and deploying federal forces in cities throughout the nation to spherical up undocumented folks.

Throughout his first time period, Trump deployed hundreds of troops alongside the border with Mexico to cease a caravan of Central American migrants who had been making their manner north. Critics referred to as the deployment an enormous overreaction and dismissed it as a political stunt forward of the 2018 midterm elections.