U.S. News

“Hundreds of Seattle-area students walked out of school Thursday and gathered at Seattle City Hall downtown to protest the tactics of federal immigration enforcement officers across the country…

“Thursday’s protests included walkouts in Baltimore, Austin, Dallas, and York, Pennsylvania.

““It's the threat and the fear of intimidation while you're trying to pursue your education, which to me, is really horrible,” [Amara Aalfs-Weinbaum, a senior at Lakeside Upper School,…an organizer of “ICE Out of Schools,” which led the protest] said. “Using intimidation tactics and fear and literally abducting children and pulling them into cars on their way to school is a violation of our human rights. That's something that everyone should be standing up for.””