{"id":144567,"date":"2026-01-30T21:28:14","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/144567\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T21:28:14","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T21:28:14","slug":"austin-businesses-and-students-join-nationwide-ice-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/144567\/","title":{"rendered":"Austin businesses and students join nationwide ICE protest"},"content":{"rendered":"

Students across Austin are walking out of class Friday as part of a national shutdown to protest federal immigration enforcement.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of students from Eastside Early College High School, Kealing Middle School, Crockett High and McCallum High School all walked out to protest Immigration and Customs Enforcement\u2019s presence in Minneapolis and its operations in Austin.<\/p>\n

The so-called national shutdown<\/a> has drawn support from businesses and students across the country. The walkouts in Austin precede a planned rally at the Texas Capitol Friday at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n

\"Protesters<\/p>\n

Lorianne Willett<\/p>\n

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KUT News<\/p>\n

People gather outside of Austin Community College’s Highland campus during a national walkout movement on Friday. <\/p>\n

Eastside student Jayla said she felt compelled to walk out because of the recent killings in Minneapolis of Renee Macklin Good and Alex Pretti, as well as Keith Porter Jr. in Los Angeles. Jayla said she has also heard of Eastside families impacted by ICE activity.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey’re tearing innocent families apart,\u201d the 17-year-old junior said. \u201cThey’re killing innocent people \u2014\u00a0and they’re just doing a lot. \u201d<\/p>\n

Jayla joined hundreds of students who made the trek from the Capitol grounds, down Lavaca and up to the University of Texas campus. She said she heard about the protest that morning and said her mom supported her decision to walk out.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is bigger than school,\u201d she said. \u201cSchool\u2019s still gonna be there.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is a developing story. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Students across Austin are walking out of class Friday as part of a national shutdown to protest federal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":144568,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,1829,60604,59885,60605,3647,60606,60601,60607,60608],"class_list":["post-144567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-ice","tag-ice-out","tag-ice-protests","tag-ice-protests-austin","tag-immigration-and-customs-enforcement","tag-national-shutdown","tag-national-strike","tag-national-strike-austin","tag-student-walkouts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144567"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144567\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144568"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}