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FLAGGING THE PROBLEM
Sen. Mel Martinez has some advice for Hispanic demonstrators protesting immigration legislation in Congress: leave the foreign flags at home.
“I think it’s terrible. I think it’s a very mixed message,” Martinez, R-Fla., the first Cuban-born member of the U.S. Senate, told reporters Friday when asked about demonstrations that have featured protestors carrying foreign flags, mostly Mexican but in some cases from Guatemala and other Latin American countries.
“I think it’s fine for people to express themselves, but if what this is about … is about the opportunity to be in America, to be a resident of America, to work in America, and ultimately to be a citizen of America, they need to be carrying American flags,” Martinez said.
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