Dozens of students walked out the front doors of Beaverton’s Southridge High School on Monday morning into the pouring rain to protest ongoing immigration enforcement in the community.
The protest took place less than half a mile from the preschool where U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers shattered the car window of a local chiropractor and arrested him as he dropped off his 2-year-old in June.
The Southridge students were joined by hundreds of their peers from schools across Washington County.
Increased activity by ICE and U.S. Border Patrol has rattled the suburbs west of Portland in recent months, prompting Washington County and several cities within the county to declare states of emergency…