20 years ago Congressman Jim Sensenbrenner tried to make undocumented immigrants felons, which was a catalyst for the modern immigrant rights movement.

When protesters marched waving Mexican flags, the message was diluted and gave GOP a potent imagery to incite a populist, nativist backlash.

And here goes again.

Optics and visuals mattered in 2005 and they do even more so in this age of real-time social media.

https://www.newsweek.com/la-protests-mexican-flags-donald-trump-ice-2083140