Sensenbrenner's bill is widely unpopular, it seems.
LOS ANGELES--Students from Huntington Park High School staged a walkout on Friday to protest an immigration bill before Congress that would strengthen enforcement of immigration laws, authorities said.
At about 8:30 a.m., roughly 500 students walked out of the school and splintered into two groups, said Ellen Morgan of the Los Angeles Unified School District. As the day progressed, hundreds more students left class from South Gate, Montebello, Jordan, Garfield, Roosevelt, Washington Preparatory and Bell high schools, she said.
By 11:30 a.m., authorities estimated that the crowd had grown to 1,000 students.
Some campuses, including Bell and South Gate, were in lockdown mode in the morning -- meaning no one could come in or leave -- but the lockdowns were lifted, Morgan said.
Washington Prep underwent a "controlled dismissal" of its students around 1:30 p.m., but it was not immediately known if the dismissal was related to the protests or if it had been scheduled for today, Morgan said.
Around that time, an unknown number of students from Edison and Peary middle schools and 30 to 40 students from King-Drew Medical Magnet, a high school, walked out, bringing estimated total participation to around 3,200 students, she said.
Two other schools -- San Fernando High and South L.A. High School #1 on the old Santee Dairy site -- also were locked down to prevent students from leaving, she said.
Also:
On Thursday, thousands of people filled the streets of Milwaukee for what was billed as "A Day Without Latinos" to protest efforts in Congress to target undocumented workers. Police estimated more than 10,000 people joined the demonstrations and march to downtown Milwaukee. Organizers put the number at 30,000.
This...I don't know if I should be shocked or what:
The demonstration led to fights between black and Hispanic students at one high school, but the protests were largely peaceful, authorities said. Chantal Mason, a sophomore at George Washington Preparatory High, said black students jumped Hispanic students as they left classes to protest a bill passed the House in December that would make it a felony to be in the U.S. illegally.
"It was horrible, horrible," Mason said. "It's ridiculous that a bunch of black students would jump on Latinos like that, knowing they're trying to get their freedom."
America's been home to freedom for only some people for quite a while now. I suppose Hispanic people, illegal or not, aren't allowed the same freedoms now, right?
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