Outrage Spreads Over Flag Incident; Illegal Students Fly Mexican Emblem at U.S. School
"Whittier area students from Pioneer, California and Whittier high schools walked out of classes to protest the proposed
federal immigration bill March 27, 2006. The protestors put up the Mexican flag over the American flag flying upside down at Montebello High," the Press Telegram reports. The school officials are denying that their students took part in the flag raising. "In Montebello, officials sought to clarify Tuesday that no Montebello High School students were involved in an incident Monday in which an American flag was hung upside down, below a Mexican flag," the Whittier Daily News writes. "Like I said: Welcome to reconquista. I predict this stunt will be the nail in the coffin of any guest-worker/amnesty plan on the table in Washington. The image of the American flag subsumed by another and turned upside down on American soil is already spreading on Internet forums and via e-mail," comments Michelle Malkin, who posted the photos on her site.
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