As brick-throwing radicals clash with police in Los Angeles, a masked man on a motorcycle rides into the picture, waving a Mexican flag as large plumes of black smoke billow in the background. This is likely to be the defining image of the 2025 anti-Immigration and Customs Enforcement riots. It’s unfortunate, and not merely because political violence has frequently taken hold of our cities’ streets in recent years. The scene simply isn’t emblematic of the Hispanic American. Indeed, all it does is foster anti-Latino and anti-immigrant sentiment around the country. The immigrant experience is far better encapsulated by the Latino working in the Los Angeles Police Department or one who stood among the 2,000 National Guard members deployed by President Donald Trump to suppress the unrest. It might shock some people to learn that approximately 50% of our Border Patrol and about 25% of our ICE officers are of Hispanic descent. Then again, unlike would-be Marxist insurrectionists who dream of Reconquista, Hispanic Americans tend to be patriotic. Latinos make up 27% of active-duty Marines. That percentage has been growing. There are nearly a million Latino veterans of the two Gulf Wars. It’s not the average Latino American who advocates and funds anti-ICE protests. As with trendy leftist movements like “Free Palestine” and Black Lives Matter, progressive groups not only agitate for violence but bankroll it. Those “F*** ICE” packs filled with tactical gear and phone numbers for “jail support” that were handed out to “protesters” on a nightly...