Sacramento students coordinate walkout to protest ICE. See their planned routes
Sacramento high school students are taking part in a districtwide walkout Friday morning, joining a nationwide student effort to protest immigration enforcement following fatal shootings in Minneapolis.
Students plan to walk out of school around 10:30 a.m. Friday and make their way to the California state Capitol.
Organizers said they would be 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 Sacramento City Council to reaffirm its status as a sanctuary city for immigrants.
Students from West Campus, Hiram Johnson, Rosemont, C.K. McClatchy, Luther Burbank, Health Professionals and John F. Kennedy high schools, as well as the School of Engineering and Sciences will march from their campuses to downtown. Their routes will join Regional Transit light rail and bus lines before converging on the California state Capitol.
Protesters had originally planned to meet in from of the John E. Moss Federal Building on Capitol Mall, which holds people detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. But organizers said in a post that they had “safety concerns” and opted for the Capitol’s west steps instead.
The Sacramento City Unified School District students will also be joined by students from Florin High School in the neighboring Elk Grove Unified School District.
This story was originally published January 30, 2026 at 9:47 AM.
