Hundreds of Stockton high school students filled streets across the city Friday as part of a nationwide shutdown aimed at pressing officials to stop funding ICE and remove its agents from communities across the U.S.
From City Center in downtown Stockton to Hammer Lane in the north, at least 400 students from Lincoln, Edison and Franklin high schools flooded sidewalks for several hours Friday morning carrying signs blasting ICE, while leading chants against the agency’s abuses and President Donald Trump.
Stockton’s students joined thousands of other young people from schools across the country, from San Jose and Sacramento to San Antonio and Atlanta, who had planned walkouts Friday as part of the shutdown.
The nationwide action came in response to what the Trump administration has touted as the largest immigration operation ever unfolding in Minnesota, during which ICE agents have conducted warrantless searches, with some confrontations turning deadly…