Thousands of students walked out of several schools across the Chicago area this week to protest federal immigration enforcement operations, drawing attention to the political views of the next generation of voters.
“We are the upcoming voters. We are the upcoming generation. We are the future,” Imaria Romero, a senior at Downers Grove North High School, told NBC Chicago at a walkout protest Tuesday afternoon.
Students from Downers Grove North and Downers Grove South high schools converged near the downtown train station with signs calling for change in the ongoing federal immigration crackdown after walking out of class Tuesday just before 1 p.m.
The protest was organized by students in response to what they describe as dehumanizing tactics used by Immigration and Customs Enforcement both in the Chicago area and across the country.
Further north in Carpentersville, hundreds of students from several schools walked out of class Tuesday afternoon to protest ICE operations.
The Tuesday protests come on the heels of a controversial police response to a student walkout in Aurora.
Three high school students in Aurora are facing charges after a Monday walkout protest that police said started peacefully but later escalated.
Video obtained by NBC Chicago and Telemundo Chicago from the Aurora protest shows a police officer kneeling on a person amid the action as another officer drags a person a few feet away. Later, the video pans to show another person being held down on the sidewalk by several officers.
Aurora police said three male juveniles who are students at East Aurora High School were charged with improper walking in the roadway, obstructing and resisting a police officer, and one was additionally charged with aggravated battery to a police officer.
NBC Chicago could not confirm if they people in the video are students, or, more specifically, if they are the three students who are facing charges.
Aurora police told Telemundo Chicago and NBC Chicago that the videos on social media “represents only a brief excerpt from a nearly two-hour-long incident.”
Dozens gathered at 5:30 p.m. Tuesday near the Aurora police station for an “emergency protest” calling people to “stand with students” and “end ICE & police terror now” in response to the police activity at Monday’s protest.
Aurora police encouraged people not involved in the protest to avoid the area in a post on social media Tuesday evening.
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