NYC high schoolers walk out of classes by the hundreds for Manhattan protest of Trump's travel ban
Public Advocate Letitia James encouraged the young activists.
(Andrew Savulich/New York Daily News)Hundreds of city high school students walked out of classes Tuesday to protest President Trump’s travel ban against seven mostly Muslim countries.
At a rally at Manhattan’s Foley Square, protesters decried the immigration ban as well as the confirmation of Betsy DeVos Tuesday as the country’s next education secretary.
“Never in my 17 young years have I felt as black as I did the day Trump became our President. Never in those 17 years have I felt as much Islamophobia, discrimination and hate as I did in the last three months,” said Yacine Fall, a high school senior from Harlem. “After I cried, I felt more determined than ever not to be silent.”
The rally was in protest of Trump's travel ban of seven Muslim-majority countries in addition to the confirmation of Betsy DeVos as education secretary.
(Andrew Savulich/New York Daily News)Public Advocate Letitia James urged on the crowd.
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“You’ve got to rise up, like so many have done before you, and you’ve got to resist, like so many have done before you,” she said.
The group marched to Federal Plaza where the New York office of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services is located after the rally.
(Andrew Savulich/New York Daily News)Youssef Abdelzaher, 17, a high school senior from Astoria, Queens, said it would fall to young people to resist the Trump administration.
“It was the youth who walked out during the civil rights movement. It was the youth who tore at the Berlin wall with their bare hands. It was the youth who stood in front of tanks at Tiananmen Square,” he said.
After the rally, the group marched to Federal Plaza where the New York office of United States Citizenship and Immigration Services is located.
