Sunset Park High School students take the streets for ‘Day Without Immigrants’
Sunset Park students are the latest to take a stand against President Donald Trump’s controversial travel ban and recent increasing arrests and raids made by the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
In response to a ‘Day Without Immigrants,’ a movement that encourage businesses, schools and others to close in solidarity, at around 12:15 p.m., hundreds of students left class at Sunset Park High School, 153 35th Street, and took to the streets, holding signs and chanting that they won’t be divided.
“It started with a post on Facebook that stated if you’re a part of an immigrant family or an immigrant not to show up to work or school, not to show up to anything,” said 17-year-old Casson Love. “We want to boycott to show that without these people, the community can’t survive, and our school took it upon ourselves, where instead of not showing up to school, at 12:15 we planned to walk out in protest.”