Authorities in Colorado restored an American flag to its place Friday evening after protesters demonstrating outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility pulled down the star-spangled banner and flew the flag of Mexico in its place.
The protesters also removed a “Blue Lives Matter” flag, honoring law enforcement, spray-painted it with the words “Abolish ICE,” then raised the flag upside-down, on a pole next to the Mexican flag, according to local media.
Hundreds of protesters had gathered in Aurora, Colo., outside the federal facility that holds illegal immigrants, to protest ICE raids scheduled to begin Sunday in Denver and other major U.S. cities, FOX 31 Denver reported.
Aurora police Chief Nick Metz said the majority of protesters remained peaceful and some even thanked officers for their evening efforts.
The protest, part of a network of #LightsForLiberty events, also dubbed the “March to Close Concentration Camps,” called for detention centers at the U.S.-Mexico border to be closed and for all immigrants being held in those locations to be granted entry to the U.S., according to the event’s Facebook page.
Protestors on @ICEgov property just pulled down the American flag and replaced it with the Mexican flag. The group by the doors is growing. Though most protestors are still on the street. pic.twitter.com/X2waaFMEOW
— Matt Mauro (@mattmauronews) July 13, 2019
The American flag flies once again outside Aurora ICE facility. #LightsforLiberty pic.twitter.com/VvG85odmKF
— Jaclyn Allen (@jaclynreporting) July 13, 2019
Tonight we witnessed the best of Aurora (Police & Community) during the peaceful #LightsForLiberty demonstration. Thank you to everyone who remained peaceful & took the time to thank my cops…& thank you to all the officers who were there to ensure everyones safety. @AuroraPD pic.twitter.com/UzkF8nQDfJ
— Nick Metz (Ret. Police Chief) (@Code4Metz) July 13, 2019
Beginning Sunday, ICE agents will reportedly work to round up thousands of illegal immigrants across the U.S.
President Trump delayed the operation by two weeks to allow Dems to propose a bipartisan solution to the humanitarian crisis at the border.
Speaking to Fox News during his visit to the border Friday, Vice President Mike Pence said the upcoming ICE raids will not be done at random and will be focused on “removing those deported by courts.”
Besides Denver, the raids were expected to take place in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York and San Francisco. Raids scheduled for New Orleans may be delayed due to Tropical Storm Barry, KCNC reported. Other #LightsForLiberty protests took place across the U.S. Friday, including in San Ysidro, Calif.; Portland, Ore.; and New York City.
Again, they ALLOW these things to happen for the desired end result.
None of these flags mean squat to me, as NONE of them represent US.
Make mine a Bill of Rights and fly it while representing it and we’ll talk.
I’ll fly a Confederate flag… nothing else.
BURN THE REST, ESPECIALLY THAT MEXICAN POS!!!!!
THE ONLY “FLAG” I’LL FLY IS BEHIND MY HEAD WHERE I’M SITTING;
https://fromthetrenchesworldreport.com/got-to-finally-meet-deon/243492
Before I look, I’m guessin’ Gadsden (the only other possibility I can think of).
Well… that’s the one galen & I were talking about in the next comments down.
Right on, Martist. And for $20 bucks, anyone can purchase of Bill of Rights flag here:
http://www.billofrightsflag.com/
Would be great to see them flying EVERYWHERE!!
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Okay… that being the case, that’s the only OTHER flag I would fly.
I was waiting to hear that.
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Wow! They took our flag down and replaced it with a foreign country yet that is not a declaration of war. If that ain’t a declaration of war, then I don’t know what is. That’s like Syria taking an Israeli flag down in Tel Aviv and replacing it with theirs. Total nuclear war would ensue without a moments notice, but not here.
Unfrigginbelievable…..
I’m surprised at your analogy of Syria removing an israeli flag, something which will likely never happen. Why didn’t you use the analogy of the israelis removing the Palestinian flag, something that has already happened?
For the frame of reference NC was using, I think he was spot on, and one day that Israeli flag will be shoved up the zionists’ asses.
I’m not getting your angle here, John.
Yeah, “declaration of war.”
We know that “American” flag is not the flag of freedom and The Bill of Rights, but has become the flag of the Zionist occupation of the u.S., and of the perpetual wars on innocence. The so-called leaders are leading and funding this attack and lying to the masses.
I stretch to understand what the brainwashed, who cannot see this as “declaration of war,” are telling themselves? I just do not comprehend how they interpret this.
And it’s more than “a declaration of war”… it is a symbol of CONQUERING when a flag is raised. They are becoming bold enough to proclaim victory, no?
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Again we’re fighting in someone else backyard but not taking care of our business. At war in and outside of the USA . Never ever leave home without your bb gun
OR HAND CANNON FOR THAT MATTER…………….
The Jews getting arrested at ICE centers are just getting started:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/the-jews-getting-arrested-at-ice-centers-are-just-getting-started/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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