Front Range students plan walkouts as part of nationwide anti-ICE protest

On Thursday, dozens of students at Montbello High School got a head start on planned nationwide school walkouts condemning ICE’s actions in Minnesota.

Denver7 learned the students planned Thursday’s protest the same morning. They walked out of class just after 2 p.m., marching over a mile west to Peoria Street and back to campus.

It’s a taste of what other schools across the country, including along the Front Range, will be doing Friday as part of a nationwide shutdown calling for no work, no school, and no shopping as part of the anti-ICE protest.

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Late Thursday, Aurora Public Schools canceled classes Friday amid a growing number of “staff absences” expected…

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