Students at high schools across New Orleans staged mass walkouts on Tuesday (Jan. 20) to protest federal immigration enforcement efforts in the city and across the country.
The two-hour demonstrations — which were student-organized and run — occurred at Benjamin Franklin High School in the Lake Terrace/Lake Oaks neighborhood, NOCCA Arts Conservatory in the Bywater and New Harmony High School in St. Claude.
The Ben Franklin walkout happened during the school’s second period. It included homemade signs, chants and several speeches. Students in high-visibility vests served as security as hundreds marched from the school to a nearby field and back…