{"id":532373,"date":"2026-01-21T14:48:37","date_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:48:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/532373\/"},"modified":"2026-01-21T14:48:37","modified_gmt":"2026-01-21T14:48:37","slug":"asu-students-hold-walkout-to-protest-trump-and-ice-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/532373\/","title":{"rendered":"ASU students hold walkout to protest Trump and ICE: Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Grace Monos<\/p>\n

On Tuesday afternoon at Arizona State University\u2019s campus in Tempe, chants of \u201cFUCK ICE,\u201d \u201cFUCK TRUMP\u201d and \u201cSI SE PUEDE\u201d filled the air. More than 60 students, many of whom had just come from class, sported backpacks and clutched skateboards, flyers and poster boards as they called on federal immigration officials<\/a> to get out of Arizona.<\/p>\n

Carrying a classic black JanSport backpack, Jose Villagrana was among the many young faces in the crowd. Villagrana is undocumented but has lived in Arizona since he was a young child and has always imagined becoming a citizen. Instead, the first-year ASU student is scared that the Trump administration could target him for deportation. He does not have Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals status, which would protect him from being deported.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019m fearful to apply to become a citizen because of everything that\u2019s happening,\u201d Villagrana told Phoenix New Times while walking down Mill Avenue among the boisterous crowd. \u201cI don\u2019t know if they\u2019re going to know me more because I\u2019m trying to be a U.S. citizen.\u201d<\/p>\n

It\u2019s possible Immigration and Customs Enforcement would know him because of his activism. In his first year at the country\u2019s largest public university, Villagrana has become increasingly involved in progressive organizing groups, especially those related to education like Save Our Schools Arizona. On Tuesday, despite his fears, the electrical engineering major finished one of his classes and decided to join the group of students protesting the Trump administration.<\/a><\/p>\n

The protest called for ASU students to walk out of their 4 p.m. classes to protest, although many who showed didn\u2019t have class at that time anyway. The action was a part of the nationwide \u201cFree America Walkout\u201d<\/a> held on the anniversary of President Donald Trump\u2019s second inauguration. Students across the Valley, including many high schoolers, also walked out of class on Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n

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\u201cIt\u2019s great to see this many students coming out and standing down against what ICE has been doing, not only in Phoenix, but all across the country right now,\u201d said Kyah Antolos, an ASU sophomore studying psychology who is an organizer with the Party for Socialism and Liberation Phoenix. \u201cIt feels really great to be a part of something bigger than myself.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

At Hayden Lawn, student organizers affiliated with PSL Phoenix<\/a> spoke to the crowd. In a series of speeches, they criticized Trump, his deportation policies<\/a> and ICE, U.S. actions in Iran, the administration\u2019s support of Israel amid the war in Gaza and the \u201cwhole damn system,\u201d as one student organizer put it to the crowd.<\/p>\n

Many more students, ASU officials and a lone university police officer watched and listened to the crowd from a distance. One student, walking his electric scooter by the group, yelled, \u201cICE, ICE, baby!\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The group then marched in a mile-and-a-half loop around the northwest side of campus. Protesters were met with blaring car horns and thumbs up from passengers along University Drive.<\/p>\n

Marilyn Reyes, a freshman studying biological sciences, joined the protest after class. As a Latino student, she\u2019s worried her family \u201ccould be victim to this kind of thing,\u201d calling the ICE activity she\u2019s been seeing \u201cdefinitely not right.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ean Meloch, a freshman studying music therapy, took a stronger stance. He was sporting a white tank top on which he\u2019d haphazardly enscribed \u201cFUCK ICE\u201d in bold lettering. He joined the group after class to protest ICE \u201cterrorizing the whole United States,\u201d he told New Times.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019re trying to build a detention center in Glendale,\u201d Meloch said. \u201cWe\u2019re not going to stand for it.\u201d<\/p>\n

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