BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (KBAK/KBFX) — Community members participated in a protest on Friday afternoon in response to immigration enforcement across the country. It comes as people across the country participate in a “National Shutdown.”

The protest happened in downtown Bakersfield.

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Community members participated in a protest on Friday afternoon in response to immigration enforcement across the country. PHOTO: KBAK/KBFX

Community members participated in a protest on Friday afternoon in response to immigration enforcement across the country. PHOTO: KBAK/KBFX

The shutdown calls for supporters to stay home from work and school and not go shopping in an effort to “stop funding ICE.”

Organizers said, “The people of the Twin Cities have shown the way for the whole country — to stop ICE’s reign of terror, we need to SHUT IT DOWN. On Friday, January 30, join a nationwide day of no school, no work and no shopping.”

Several of the students who attended the protest were from Bakersfield High School.