Iran Students Protest for 2nd Day Despite State Crackdown
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About 35 students walked out of Quakertown Senior High School on Friday to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Donald Trump’s mass deportation efforts, defying a decision from school officials to shutter a planned demonstration over what administrators said was a “threat of violence” against the event.
There are growing calls to release students arrested during an anti-ICE protest in Quakertown. At least five students and one adult were taken into custody after a fight broke out. Video shows a man, identified as the town's police chief, putting a girl in a chokehold.
The Virginia school is one of many across the country that have seen students walk out in protest of actions taken amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
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At least 5 students, adult arrested during anti-ICE protest in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, police say
At least five students and an adult were arrested after an alleged confrontation Friday during an anti-ICE protest in Quakertown.
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“Basically, if you have students walking out right now in a protest against ICE, and then next week, you have students walking out trying to protest that the government needs to do more to combat undocumented immigrants, then the school has to levy the same punishment on both,” Goldberg said.
At least two school districts notified students of potential suspensions or detentions for leaving class during anti-ICE demonstrations.
The victim, Roshan Mishra, 26, who escaped unhurt, alleged that he managed to escape by rushing inside the premises of Birla A Hostel, where he resides. Following the gunfire that occurred around 9.30 pm, other hostel inmates came out, but by then the attackers had fled the spot, the police said.
High school students across the city took up signs and hollered chants in coordinated protests of federal immigration authorities through light rain midday Friday. The student-led walkouts centered