Grand Rapids students walk out to protest ICE immigration crackdowns

Schools that let students leave class to protest ICE have failing academic records

High schools that let students leave class to protest U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) have failing academic records, according to recent data.Students across the country protested the Trump administration's immigration enforcement actions following the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Petti in Minneapolis by staging walkouts, leading some districts to close for the day. Student coalitions held a "National Shutdown" on Jan. 30 and con…

Grand Rapids students walk out to protest ICE immigration crackdowns

"We are not too young to speak up," one of the high school students said. "We are the ones who will inherit the consequents of what happens now."

GRPS students from the Museum School engage in a walkout to protest ICE terrorism in Grand Rapids

Around 100 students from the Grand Rapids Public School’s Museum High School organized a walkout on Wednesday at 2pm to join the growing number of people in Grand Rapids and across the country to oppose to terrorist tactics of ICE. A student group in Lowell organized a walkout earlier this week, along with high school and college students that have been doing this over the past 12 months, after the Trump Administration announced that he was enga…