College students are back on campus, and so are protests.
Students and faculty at Hunter College gathered outside the main entrance for approximately two hours, protesting for immigrant and labor rights.
What You Need To Know
- The Hunter Committee to Defend Immigrants organized a protest to stand in solidarity with immigrants and demand the end of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids in New York City
- NY1 reached out to ICE and the Department of Homeland Security about the protest at Hunter, but they have not responded to our request for comment
- According to the Deportation Data Project at the University of California, Berkeley, ICE has detained about 50 children younger than 18 in the New York City area between President Donald Trump’s inauguration in January and the end of July
Jackson is a member of the Hunter Committee to Defend Immigrants and helped organize the protest…