Detroit area student walkouts declare, “ICE are the criminals, not us”
Thursday, February 12, 2026
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On February 10, 2026, over 200 students from Cass Technical High School in Detroit walked out to oppose ICE terror, demanding the release of Alcides Caceres, a Cass Tech graduate being held by ICE despite a federal court ruling that his detention is unlawful.
The student walkouts, which began on January 30, have continued into February, with over 1,000 students participating in Plymouth-Canton and hundreds more in Ypsilanti, Ann Arbor, and Royal Oak, protesting ICE's escalation of immigration raids and arrests of asylum seekers like Edwin Vladimir Romero Gutierrez and Ángel Junior Rincón Pérez.
Students are tying their protests to the killings in Minneapolis and the repression of workers at Amazon, with one student organizer saying, "They took our alumni... They took our peers at Western [International High School]" and another student declaring, "I'm here to make a difference, some difference is better than no difference at all," as they condemn ICE's mistreatment of immigrants and demand justice.
