On February 6, 2026, students across the San Fernando Valley took off from school and walked to their closest City Hall to use their first amendment right to Assembly and protest ICE in Los Angeles. This event follows a total of 9 killings of American citizens and over 600,000 deportations of illegal immigrants. As families were stripped away and broken, students organized the event with smashing success. Students wrapped the block with signs, flags and a joint effort: “No ICE in our streets.”
Valley Walkout | February 6, 2026
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Aidyn Kinchen, Online Editor-in-Chief
Aidyn Kinchen, a senior, is a multifaceted member of The Mirror leadership team, the award-winning student newspaper and website at Van Nuys High School in Los Angeles. He is in his second year as an Online Editor-in-Chief, as well as a producer and cameraman for Real Humans, and tends to be a frequent competition writer. He has won five awards through journalism so far at the local, state and national levels and hopes to continue this forward momentum. Outside of journalism, he’s one of two student leaders in the Digital Media department, coming off a year of one of the best news shows the school has seen to date and awarded with the honor of third-best broadcast news in the state through the Southern California Journalism Education Association. With graduation brightly looming, he hopes to study film/television and broadcast journalism at any of the top film schools in the country. In his leisure time, he enjoys making custom beaded bracelets and listening to as many genres of music as there are stars in the sky.