In two Phoenix schools on Tuesday more than 500 students walked out to protest Trump administration undoing of DACA program. Students from South Mountain and North High schools left classes early to march a mile in scorching heat to local and federal law-enforcement offices.

The Second part of their protest was, they don’t want police in their schools. The local demonstrations were a part of a wave of walkouts staged by high school and college students across the country in response to the phase out of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Program.

Immigrations group Puente Human Rights Movement, in announcing the walkouts in Phoenix said, “Eliminating DACA leaves young people of colour in Arizona further exposed to over criminalization and possible deportation”.

The group said in a statement, Young people in Phoenix are taking action. As part of the #CopsOuttaCampusCampaign, Students are staging a walkout demanding the cops to leave the campus as they have no place in classroom.

The South Mountain High School students left the campus around 11.30 am, walking mostly along busy Southern Avenue to Phoenix Police Department’s South Mountain Precinct. They chanted “Student Power” and “Trump is not our President” as they walked. Even some cars honked in support of them.

Once outside the police station, students set up Silk screening stations where they printed posters that had an image of a student in Sunglasses wearing a T-Shirt that said “Resist 45”.

Craige Pletenik, Spokesman for the Phoenix Union High School District, said that district does not condone student walkouts and the school officials are hopeful that none would occur.

The District dispatched Councillors and social workers to schools on Tuesday after Trump Administration Announcement to avoid such situations.

By A.s