Students walked out of Edina High School to protest the growing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) presence in Minnesota on Tuesday afternoon.

“I’ve been really fed up about what’s happening in Minneapolis and how ICE has been so controlling of our people,” freshman and walkout organizer Lily Schwandt said. “As a school, we should do something about this rather than just standing and watching.”

The walkout was first announced on Jan. 12 through an Instagram account. Posts stated that the purpose of the protest was to “resist ICE in our city and schools.”

“Where Renee Good was shot, my house is nearby,” freshman Salman Ahmed said. “It could’ve happened to any of my family.”

Several students gave speeches when the crowd reached the EHS lower turf.

“Who are the people meant to be our saviors protecting when it seems like they’re ripping apart our country, starting at the base, starting with immigrants?” another organizer, sophomore Lucy Johnson, said in a speech.

Senior Tenzin Dechen said in a speech that this was “not the America [her] family came for.”

“We want acknowledgement of what’s happening,” junior Victor Sanchez said. “We want a safe space, more than there already is.”