No Respect for this Country

In response to proposed federal legislation regulating illegal immigration Mexicans, Mexican-Americans, and Central Americans organized nationwide demonstrations scheduled for March 27, 2006. Part of this demonstration was the encouragement of Mexican/Central American students to walk out of schools across the nation at a set time.

Students from the surrounding area complied with this, and pulled down the American flag flying in front of the Montebello High School, placing a Mexican flag followed by the American flag, flying upside down.

The Montebello Unified School District released the following press release on March 29, 2006: "On Monday, March 27, 2006 at noontime, a group of students from neighboring school districts marched to Montebello High School (MHS). At that time, MHS was on lockdown and the students remained in their classrooms. The other students, from outside Montebello Unified School District, who were estimated to be 800-1000 strong, gathered outside the MHS campus. For a brief time, the school flag was lowered, replaced with a Mexican flag, and the American flag flown beneath, upside down. The California flag was subsequently stolen."