To say this is a bad situation is an understatement and all that comes to mind is France.
We laugh here about the inability of the French government to take decisive action to solve their problems, our government is unable or unwilling to do the very same thing. Perhaps the people in France were not all that happy to have all their middle-Eastern immigrants, either and their government ignored their wishes same as our's is ignoring us.
That is like a black South African preferring the apartheid-era South African flag, given how the Mexican government has treated her indigenous population over the years.