Column: Why waving the Mexican flag at immigration rallies isn't wrong
- Posted on February 4, 2025
- By Los Angeles Times
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Column: Why waving the Mexican flag at immigration rallies isn't wrong
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Moderates have always feared that Latinos waving the flags of Mexico, El Salvador, Venezuela and other ancestral countries is political suicide — that it taps into the part of the American psyche that believes Latinos will never assimilate.