The Mexican flag is no longer just flying over Mexico—it’s flying over the streets of Los Angeles during violent anti-ICE riots. And now even CNN is admitting it.

In a recent report, CNN declared that “the Mexican flag has become a defining symbol of the LA protests,” confirming what video footage and images have shown: rioters are waving foreign flags while attacking police, torching vehicles, and throwing bricks—all in protest of federal immigration law enforcement.

For days, chaos has erupted across Los Angeles after President Donald Trump ordered ICE to carry out a major enforcement sweep targeting criminal illegal aliens. The operation resulted in over 40 arrests, including child molesters and violent offenders. In response, left-wing agitators took to the streets in organized riots—and they brought the Mexican flag with them.

CNN’s spin? The flag is supposedly a show of “solidarity” and “community.” UCLA professor Raul Hinojosa-Ojeda told the network, “The flags mean their families. The flags mean their communities.” He insisted the movement isn’t about invasion.

But Americans aren’t buying that. Video doesn’t lie. What people are seeing is a wave of destruction and hostility cloaked in foreign nationalism.

The backlash has already begun. After intense public criticism, organizers are now reportedly handing out American flags in an attempt to tamp down the optics disaster.

Vice President JD Vance wasn’t having it. He took to X, calling the rioters “insurrectionists” and demanding action. “Insurrectionists carrying foreign flags are attacking immigration enforcement officers,” Vance wrote. “Time to pass President Trump’s beautiful bill and further secure the border.”

That bill, dubbed the “Big, Beautiful Bill,” would include a tax on remittances—money sent from the U.S. to foreign countries. It’s designed to penalize illegal immigration by cutting into the billions of dollars leaving the country and flowing back into Mexico and Central America.

Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum is already lashing out, urging Mexicans in the U.S. to protest the tax. “If necessary, we’ll mobilize,” she warned last month, making clear Mexico has no intention of respecting America’s right to enforce its borders or tax outbound cash.

In response, Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) introduced an amendment to Trump’s bill that would increase the remittance tax from 3.5% to a whopping 15%.

The message from the GOP is clear: if foreign nationals want to wave another country’s flag while attacking our officers and protesting our laws, they can pay for it. And that payment starts with the hard cash flowing out of America.

These aren’t peaceful protests. They’re a direct challenge to American sovereignty—one that even CNN can no longer ignore. The question now isn’t whether there’s a problem. It’s whether our leaders have the courage to solve it.

President Trump does. And the American people are ready to back him up.