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Los Angeles | February 14, 2026
At the LA walkouts yesterday, hundreds of students marched on the Metropolitan Detention Center, where immigrants are locked up before being shipped out to modern-day concentration camps pending deportation. Chanting “No Tenemos Miedo,” they confronted the handful of DHS agents who meekly told them to get off the loading dock.
When one DHS agent violently grabbed a student, the crowd refused to abandon her and rushed to her defense. After facing their wrath, the DHS pigs let the student go and retreated into the building, threatening protesters with brandished tasers and batons.
No students were arrested because the crowd decided to step outside of routine protest and took bold, collective action. A couple were slightly injured in the scuffle. Energized by their small, yet significant, victory, students celebrated by dancing in front of the blocked front entrance of the Federal Building.
These violent DHS pigs constantly brutalize immigrants and those brave enough to stand with them. After killing Silverio Villegas González, Keith Porter, Renee Good, and Alex Pretti, after sending thousands to rot in concentration camps, it’s commendable that students bravely put their bodies on the line to defend their classmate, knowing full well what DHS pigs are ready to do.
Mainstream news outlets continue to misinform. “It was unclear what led to the clash” quotes the NY Times. The LA Times dutifully repeated LAPD reports on the attacks on DHS, calling the student rebels “suspects” (of what crime?). All failed to mention that this was in response to an attempted unjust arrest of a student taking part in first amendment activities.
We demand that the brutal DHS pigs who saw fit to threaten children for protesting be locked up in the MDC for their brutality.
Hours after the scuffle, a furious US attorney Bill Essayli announced a “surge” of DHS agents to protect the federal building – long after the vast majority of protesters had dispersed.
This “surge” will not scare the students from continuing and broadening their own Spring Surge to Melt ICE, taking the struggle into their neighborhoods and building a movement aimed at stopping the deportations and freeing the kidnapped.
No Tenemos Miedo.
Dare to Struggle 