These students walked out in protest after one of their classmates was turned over to border agents following a traffic stop
Less than three weeks before his graduation from high school in Tucson, Arizona, a routine traffic stop landed Thomas Torres-Maytorena in the custody of US Customs and Border Protection agents.
On Monday, more than 100 of his classmates walked out of Desert View High School and marched in protest to the Pima County Sheriff's Department.It was the sheriff's department that turned the 18-year-old undocumented student over to federal authorities following the traffic stop on Thursday night, according to the sheriff's department and a school official.
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