Organizers said the inverted flag, historically used as a sign of distress, was meant to draw attention to the Trump administration’s cuts to the National Park Service.

The flag-raising at Saint Sabina follows a similar protest at Yosemite National Park over the weekend, where frustrated Park Service employees raised their own upside-down flag in response to recent cuts.

The upside-down flag was placed on the cliff face of El Capitan at the national park. A group of National Park Service demonstrators unfurled an upside-down American flag on the cliff face of El Capitan in Yosemite National Park on Saturday to protest the Trump administration’s mass firing of park rangers.

From the firing of thousands of federal employees to threats of ice raids wreaking havoc on immigrant communities, they're among the many reasons Father Michael Pfleger and the members of his church say the United States is under siege.

Father Michael Pfleger and his South Side Saint Sabina Church community raised the American flag upside-down Monday, saying the country is in distress.