Elk Grove district school to join Sacramento ICE protest at state Capitol
High school students from Elk Grove Unified School District will trek to downtown Sacramento on Friday to join Sacramento teens protesting immigration enforcement at the state Capitol.
Students from Florin High School, located in south Sacramento near the border of the city and Elk Grove, plan to walk out of school at 9:30 a.m. to catch up with students at seven Sacramento City Unified School District schools who will be walking out an hour later.
Student organizers at Florin High are directing students to march to the Cosumnes River College light rail station where they will take the Blue Line to the Archives Plaza station where they will meet with the larger student group, according to an Instagram post. The group will then march to the Capitol, where students are slated to speak.
Protest organizers said they are expecting up to 1,000 students to attend. The movement has attracted several local officials, including Sacramento City Councilmember Mai Vang and Assemblymember Maggy Krell, who each confirmed plans to attend. Former mayoral candidate and candidate for Sacramento County Supervisor Flojaune Cofer wrote in an Instagram comment that she plans to participate.
Some students plan to advance the demonstration to the John E. Moss Federal Building on Capitol Mall, which holds people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
The C.K. McClatchy High students who organized the district-wide walkout said they are protesting the “brutal oppression” of migrant families and American citizens by ICE and President Donald Trump’s administration. They are calling for the abolition of ICE and for the Sacramento City Council to reaffirm its status as a sanctuary city for immigrants.
In addition to McClatchy, SCUSD students from Hiram Johnson, Rosemont, Luther Burbank, West Campus, The Met and Health Professions high schools plan to join the walkout.
The student-led effort is a part of a national strike calling for “no work, no school, no shopping” to protest immigration enforcement and the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti, who were both fatally shot by federal immigration agents in Minneapolis earlier this month, as well as the six immigrants who died while in ICE custody in 2026.
