Rockford high school students stage walkout, immigration protest – Rockford Register Star

Students walk out of class to protest new immigration policies Friday, Feb. 7, 2025, at Jefferson High School in Rockford.
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Anonymous
1 year ago

There is a walkout happening at the Rockford Environmental Science Academy.

David F
1 year ago

There is no intelligent life in Rockford, been that way for at least 30 years.

debtsor
1 year ago

A short drive around Rockford shows how much demographics have changed. Unfortunately, the replacement demographic has done nothing to improve the aesthetics of the city, it still looks like a bomb went off in half the town. It’s not like the newcomers are rehabbing or revitalizing the place, they’re just transforming it from the Rockfordian slum into a Guadalajaran barrio instead. At most, a sloppy paint job on an older building, maybe a spraypainted sign in Spanish. Immigrants of the past used to build their own communities; most of Chicago’s neighborhoods were built by the hands of immigrants, who after… Read more »

I M Intelligent
1 year ago
Reply to  debtsor

Very insightful comment, thanks!👍

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