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As Texas leaders crack down on school ICE walkouts, debate over free speech flares up

  • 1.  As Texas leaders crack down on school ICE walkouts, debate over free speech flares up

    Posted 2 days ago

    Any other Tuesday, Paola Ramirez would have been at lunch. But Feb. 10 wasn't any other Tuesday. The 16-year-old walked off campus and into the streets, alongside hundreds of her peers from Booker T. Washington High School for the Performing and Visual Arts. As skyscrapers towered over them, their cheers, chants and stomps wove through downtown Dallas. Over her shoulders, the straps of a small pink backpack. In her hair, red and white lacy ribbons threaded through two braids in an Indigenous Mexican hairstyle. And in her hands, a poster with a message.

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    Michael Spurlin
    ATPE
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