Students walk out at ERHS
- Ondine Mitchell
- 1 hour ago
- 2 min read
In a city-wide protest against Immigration and Custom Enforcement (ICE)'s efforts to illegally deport immigrants, hundreds of students in LAUSD schools are marching downtown to join a large protest at City Hall. Starting at the end of first period, hundreds of students gathered in the Quad, blowing on whistles, holding up signs, and yelling through megaphones. By the time that advisory started, all of the protestors were gone, starting the long walk downtown.
Due to this citywide protest coinciding with Transit Equity Day, all Metro services today were free, giving protesters an easier route.
Los Angeles has a long history of student protests, such as the East Los Angeles Walkouts in 1968, where high schoolers left during school to protest unfair treatment towards Latino students. Also, in 2006, there were walkouts to combat a proposed immigration law. On March 14, 2018 many students protested in a 17-minute national walkout as a response to the Columbine school shooting, where 17 students died.
Los Angeles is a city known for its community and immigrants are an essential part of this city's culture, so if you want to help with the effort to monitor and block ICE, here are several things that you can do, such as:
Reporting ICE sightings and raids through websites such as stopice.net
Joining a community watch team
If you do see a raid currently happening, write down the names and details of any agent you see, and if you can, record it
Remembering your rights and remember that you don't have to let them inside anywhere if they don't have a warrant
Offering to assist any people that are not able to leave their home regularly
Contacting your state representatives!
And finally, ATTEND PROTESTS!
Using these tactics, Los Angeles and the rest of the country can create an environment that ICE cannot survive in.
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