Supporters and opponents of the Los Angeles protesters see the prominence of the Mexican flag in different contexts.

Mexico’s green, white and red flag has become a defining symbol of the protests in Los Angeles. Demonstrators have waved flags from Mexico and other Latin American countries, as well as US flags ...

Elizabeth Torres, 36, held a Mexican flag outside the detention center in downtown Los Angeles on Sunday morning. “I am a very proud American,” said Ms. Torres, whose grandparents immigrated ...

The Mexican flag is not a symbol of oppression, racial injustice, or white supremacy, like that of the Confederacy’s. On the contrary, for over two centuries, ...

Protesters have embraced the flag to reassert Mexican American identity, while some conservatives have used protest images featuring the Mexican flag to frame the demonstration with anti-American ...

While the Mexican flag has a rich history and meaning removed from current events in the U.S., Lechuga said that today it’s used as a silent, visual-only response to the xenophobic and inciting ...

The visual of the Mexican flag at protests “are terrible, honestly, and this is feeding right into Donald Trump’s narrative,” Kinzinger said. “People can carry whatever flag they want.

The Mexican flag was a lightning rod during the 1994 movement against California’s Proposition 187, which sought to bar undocumented immigrants from accessing education, ...