About 100 Jersey City Public Schools (JCPS) students walked out of four high schools and marched to City Hall on Friday afternoon, in protest of federal immigration policy and escalating Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activity in Jersey City.
About 65 of the participants were William L. Dickinson High School students. Roughly 15 students from James J. Ferris High School and 20 students from Henry Snyder High School and Innovation High School also walked out. A handful of students from County Prep High School, which was not in session Friday, also joined their JCPS peers.
JCPS Superintendent Norma Fernandez did not respond to a request for comment on the walkout, which was not district- or school-sanctioned…