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...