Culturas de las Razas Unidas (CRU) president Rafael Gordillo Serrano said his organization chose to show up and speak up for the Spartan and Latino community.

“As someone who has helped so much to mobilize this effort, it's very rewarding and I'm glad that our community is waking up and that there are many Spartans ready to fight for what's right,” Gordillo Serrano said.

Gordillo Serrano described the deaths of Good and Pretti as heartbreaking while expressing his concerns about the potential of ICE coming to campus.

“It's heartbreaking that it's come to literal murder by (ICE), put out by the administration to help the country, but it's just sad,” Gordillo Serrano said. “As a student leader, one of the biggest scares we've had is, will ICE come to campus? How will our students be protected if their families are detained back home, wherever they may be from? It's definitely something that is starting to affect students. It's always on the mind of us as we wake up every day, go to class, and have family back home that we don't see every second of the day.”

MSU College Democrats president Aastha Singh spoke on the importance of college students across the country showing up to protest ICE’s practices. 

“I think that we can see the protests in Minneapolis. We see how many people care, and I think that's why there's a coordinated day of action today and tomorrow with Michigan colleges, because students care,” Singh said. “Students are affected. There's people, friends, family members that we know that are affected that might be undocumented, and it is just important to maybe be a voice or say that we can't do that and stop, which is why we're here right now."

After speakers concluded their remarks at the Hannah Administration Building, protesters started to walk in the direction of their final destination: Spartan Statue.

Being met with cars honking and people cheering in support, protesters started making their way into the street, breaking out in a choir of chants while holding signs, one of which read “Spartans Will Break ICE”.

7th Congressional District candidate William Lawrence spoke at the protest, encouraging students to continue speaking out against what they’re witnessing.

“Do not ever let anybody tell you that young people and Gen Z is apathetic and does not care,” Lawrence said. “Keep up the fight. Grab on to somebody. Hold on to each other.”

With MSU police blocking off roads and shortly after arriving at Spartan Statue, students and attendees started to crowd around the structure and West Circle Drive.

“We're here because we're being terrorized,” Mia Thurman, member of Spartans for Abdul, said. “America's being terrorized by fascist states,” Thurman said. “We're here today to stand in solidarity with Minnesota because we're more powerful as one and all together as a unity than we are individually.”