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."

  • Thistlewick@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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    24 days ago

    I also feel like flying the flag of the oppressive fascists government that is trying to deport and kill your friends and family sends the wrong message.

    Sure, there is the idea of reclaiming the symbol of the flag, but on short notice, a march that is against the deportation of Mexican immigrants probably doesn’t call for the US flag.