""Student and employee walkouts were beginning late Friday morning across the Bay Area, part of a national wave of protests against the Trump administration's immigration crackdown and the deaths of two people this month at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis.""
""They were among scores of similar protests being held in nearly every state across the nation, organized by a website called nationalshutdown.org, which called for an end to ICE funding and a stop to the agency's \"terror\" campaign.""
""Just because it's not happening to you doesn't mean you're supposed to sit back and watch everything unfold," she said, adding that while the Bay Area may feel more insulated than other parts of the country, she said "it's only a matter of time until things get worse.""
Students and employees across the Bay Area held walkouts Friday as part of a national wave of protests against federal immigration enforcement. Demonstrations occurred in Oakland, Berkeley, Concord, San Jose and San Mateo and were organized in part by nationalshutdown.org, which demanded an end to ICE funding and decried the agency's "terror" campaign. The protests followed recent federal agent activity and the deaths of two people in Minneapolis, which prompted renewed opposition and some agency redeployment. Local students cited concerns about immigration enforcement and civil rights and felt compelled to act.
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