LAUSD students walk out of school to protest ongoing immigration raids

DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Some Los Angeles Unified School District students participated in a walkout Wednesday to protest the ongoing immigration raids.

Many of them left their respective campuses during the nutrition period around 10:45 a.m. They met at the Highland Park train station and took the A Line into downtown.

Hundreds of students from different schools and grade levels then gathered outside of Los Angeles City Hall, which they planned to march around, with one unifying message: "ICE out."

Their chants and signs reflected that message, with many reading "ICE out of L.A." and "Education Not Deportation."

"Today, we're protesting for the rights of our parents, for the people who are scared to leave their houses. Even if we're a small group, it's important for us to show up," one student told Eyewitness News.

"They already took my dad. I'm not going to let them take my friends or my friends' families," student Lavelle Quijano said.

The protest was peaceful and organized.