Republican officials then allowed speakers to defend and refute the resolution. One speaker, who was identified as "Joe," said illegal immigrants were Marxist and under the influence of the devil. Another, who declined to give her name to the Daily Herald, said illegal immigrants should not be allowed because "they are not going to become Republicans and stop flying the flag upside down. ... If they want to be Americans, they should learn to speak English and fly their flag like we do."

Two things completely wrong here. One, immigrants are pretty much anything but Marxist, they're just trying to get money to send home so their families aren't living in abject poverty. Two, flying the flag upside down is not an accident, it's the symbol for distress (thanks you to "The Last Castle" with Robert Redford and James Gandolfini for that) and if they're flying the flag upside down (which I have neither seen nor heard of them doing) means they think the country is going in the wrong direction.

If this is the standard the Republican Party is basing their decisions on these days, they need to disband and start over.