This opinion column, which first appeared in the Washington Post on June 14, 2025, tackles an important cultural dimension of the recent protests in Los Angeles against the Trump administration’s intensified wave of workplace raids and deportations of undocumented immigrants.

By Enrique Acevedo Enrique Acevedo is anchor of the news program “En Punto” on Televisa.

from World Outlook [reprinted from Washington Post]

"The opinion column below first appeared in the Washington Post on June 14, 2025. World-Outlook publishes it for the information of our readers. We think it tackles an important cultural dimension of the recent protests in Los Angeles against the Trump administration’s intensified wave of workplace raids and deportations of undocumented immigrants.

The headline, subhead, photo, and text below are taken from the original. The endnote is by World-Outlook."

  • @[email protected]
    24•18 days ago

    If you’re here by choice, youre an American. Flying other flags just confuses the message that people who have come here are all Americans. Brothers, not the enemy. Even if many of us have forgotten, we’re all immigrants who could claim other nations’ flags, we’ve chosen this country. This flag.

    • @[email protected]
      19•18 days ago

      This country isn’t the flag. This country is made of people from many countries.

      Fly whatever flag you want, especially if you and yours came from that country. Remember where you came from.

      Unless you’re a Confederate. You lost. That flag don’t fly.

      • @[email protected]
        9•18 days ago

        Also no one around today really came from the Confederacy. It’s not anyone’s heritage. It was around 160 years ago and lasted less time than Obama’s presidency. Anyone claiming it today is just using it as a crutch for their hatred and bigotry.

        • @[email protected]English
          5•17 days ago

          Mexico only occupied California for a score of years or so. Anyone claiming “This was Mexico once” (as the article did) is an idiot.

      • @[email protected]M
        1•17 days ago

        You lost. That flag don’t fly.

        This is a really bad argument that people use. Plenty good causes have lost.

        The issue with the Confederacy is that it was a really bad cause, fighting for the enslavement of millions for generations.

    • Maiq
      6•18 days ago

      E pluribus unum. We are a nation made of many who coalesce to form a more perfect union. I see no issue with cultural pride, especially from those who have left their homeland to start a fresh in a foreign land for one reason or another. I do agree about at least for this purpose, that we should be flying the american flag. This is our fight, to remain free as a nation. A fight for the soul of our nation. Who we are as a people. Out of many, one!