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Students Walk Out, Call for 'Sanctuary Campus'

by VOA News

   As daily protests against the election of Donald Trump continue a week
   after vote results were announced, more groups of students are staging
   walkouts.

   A large number were planned Wednesday at universities across the United
   States.

   Some protesters are calling for their campuses to be named "sanctuary
   campuses." The campuses would be safe spaces for undocumented students,
   barring authorities from asking for documentation or turning over
   undocumented students to federal authorities.

   Social media reports show students at as many as 80 universities,
   including Princeton, New York University, Duke in North Carolina, and
   the University of California in Los Angeles are planning walkouts to
   protest President-elect Donald Trump's campaign pledge to deport
   undocumented immigrants.

   Demonstrators protesting President-elect Donald Trump walk past the
   Capitol in Washington, Nov. 15, 2016. Hundreds of demonstrators are
   gathered in Washington to protest Donald Trump's election.

   Nearly 3,000 high school students in D.C. walked out of their classes
   Tuesday and marched across the city, making stops at Trump
   International Hotel, the Capitol, and the Lincoln memorial. Students
   chanted, "We reject the president-elect" and held signs which read,
   "Please do not cut my education funding" and "Ban Bannon, not Muslims".

   Other protests were held during the weekend throughout the United
   States.

   Activist groups are looking ahead to a march the day after inauguration
   day, with many people on Facebook indicating their intent to fly to
   Washington to take part.

   Trump Protests Washington: Washington area high school students sitting
   on a park bench, from left, Makeda Lydia, 14, Sarah Tewodros, 14 and
   Serwah Lydia, 17, protest on Capitol Hill in Washington, Nov. 15, 2016.