>>http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/06/california-students-sent-home-wearing-flags-cinco-mayo/
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>>"Freshman Laura Ponce, who had a Mexican flag painted on her face and chest, told the Morgan Hill Times that Cinco de Mayo is the "only day" Mexican-American students can show their national pride."
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>>They can show their national pride everyday as long as they get the he$% out of the US and back to Mexico.
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>>Want to be a US citizen? Then act like one.
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>I don't have a problem with anyone celebrating their heritage, but....
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>That's utterly amazing. If that person had told me to remove my flag I'd have told him to pound sand. And after he sent me home,
>I sie the living daylight outta that school. That principal shoud be fired for violating those students rights. Would he have all the
>mexican students remove their Mexican colors on the 4th of July? I doubt it.
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>This immigration/mexican pride thing is WAY out of control. If Mexico's so great, why are they all coming here???

The same reason most everyone else has come here -- the opportunity for a better life. That doesn't mean they have to turn their back on their ancestral country. Why should the two be mutually exclusive?