The current Mexican flag was officially adopted by the country in 1968, though variations have been used since Mexico’s war of independence from Spain in the early 1800s.

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 ...

Even as Democrats vowed to resist ICE, some saw the photo of the Mexican flag-waving protester as undermining that resistance. “I swear this guy has to be a Republican plant,” Democratic ...

As protests broke out in downtown Los Angeles in response to ICE raids and the Trump administration’s immigration policies, a number of protesters held up Mexican flags. Some brandished them ...

The foremost image of the L.A. riots so far is a masked motorcyclist holding a Mexican flag as he does donuts around a burning car with smoke billowing in the air and police cars in the background.

Anyone looking at images of the Los Angeles immigration protests has almost certainly seen the Mexican flag flying somewhere in the frame. Demonstrators have hoisted the red, white and green banner ...

In that context, the Mexican flag isn’t necessarily a symbol of separation or rejection. Sometimes, it’s a claim: We are both. We are Mexican and American, not divided but layered.

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 ...

Mexican leaders acknowledged in a news conference on Monday that 42 Mexicans — 37 men and five women — had been detained in the L.A. ICE raids on Friday. Four were deported, they said.

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 ...