Students from across Modesto City Schools’ high schools organized a walkout Thursday afternoon in protest of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and “the unfair cruelty ICE agents are using against families,” according to an Instagram post that students made. Hundreds of students participated.
Teens from Beyer, Downey, Johansen and Davis High Schools planned to walk to the intersection of Briggsmore Avenue and Coffee Road. It was not immediately clear which schools were represented at the large gathering there.
Modesto High School students planned to walk to the Gallo Center for the Arts, Gregori High School students to Pelandale Avenue, and Enochs students to the intersection of Oakdale Road and Sylvan Avenue…