Former United Nations ambassador Nikki Haley on Sunday condemned prominent Democrats for staying mum after protesters demonstrating outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility last week pulled down the American flag and flew the flag of Mexico in its place. Crews in Aurora, Colorado, restored the American flag Friday evening. 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, local media reported. Vittert pressed: "Are you willing to say that doing that, and ripping down the American flag over a faciltiy and running up the Mexican flag, is wrong, doesn't send the right message, isn't going to unite us, which you say is so important?" DEPORTATIONS OF ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WITH FINAL REMOVAL ORDERS HAS BEGUN, OFFICIAL SAYSThe developments have come amid a fevered national debate on illegal immigration policy, as a growing humanitarian crisis at the border has continued to unfold.

Source: Fox News July 14, 2019 22:19 UTC