Walkouts, closures begin across Bay Area in protest against ICE crackdown

Student and employee walkouts began late Friday morning across the Bay Area, part of a national wave of protests against the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown and the deaths of two people this month at the hands of federal agents in Minneapolis.

High school and college students in Oakland, Berkeley, Concord, San Jose and San Mateo all planned to walk away from their classes Friday, according to posts on social media. They were among scores of similar protests being held in nearly every state across the nation...