CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA (CVILLE RIGHT NOW) – Close to 300 students walked out of Albemarle High School Friday morning in a protest against ICE actions across the nation.
The students left from school property just before 11 a.m., carrying signs and chanting as they marched down Hydraulic Ave., then turned onto Route 29 and made their way to the new pedestrian bridge. As the students walked, cars honked their horns and trucks sounded their air horns in displays of support.
“I am out here today because the things that ICE have been doing are absolutely disgusting,” ACHS senior Theseus Fulgham, one of the event’s organizers, told Cville Right Now. “They’ve been destroying our country and inciting fear into the hearts of anyone who isn’t white or white passing. Which is especially horrible because this country was built on immigrants. It’s just something that needs to be changed.”…