NYPD Takes Care of Business After Anti-ICE Wacktivists Stage ‘Protest’ at Columbia University – RedState
Late last week, New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) once again did her part to pander to criminal illegal immigrants in the Empire State during an election year by proposing legislation that would effectively end all cooperation between local governments and ICE.
Hochul dubbed his proposal the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, emphasizing that police officers do not need to assist ICE in civil immigration enforcement in order to keep communities safe. “(ICE) has over $85 billion … so they have what they need,” Hochul said Friday in his Manhattan office. “So don’t accept the argument that we have to be there because ICE needs help…We have other responsibilities when it comes to our local law enforcement.”
Unsurprisingly, between Hochul’s actions and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (DS) calling for the abolition of ICE, anti-ICE agitators are clearly emboldened, which happened in the Big Apple earlier today when protesters – including some faculty members – threw tantrums outside Columbia University demanding that they do a better job of protecting “international students” on campus, which they want be a “sanctuary campus”.
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Here are some videos from the scene (linguistic warning):
🚨BREAKING: Anti-ICE protesters wearing masks descended on Columbia University to demand that the school stop cooperating with the Trump administration. pic.twitter.com/fUb0II38LW
– Off The Press (@OffThePress1) February 5, 2026
🚨BREAKING: Anti-ICE protesters block Broadway outside the front gate of Columbia University in Manhattan. pic.twitter.com/N4VfihsSq6
– Off The Press (@OffThePress1) February 5, 2026
🚨BREAKING: New York City police threaten to arrest anti-ICE protesters blocking Broadway outside Columbia University. pic.twitter.com/oRJPFzv2AP
– Off The Press (@OffThePress1) February 5, 2026
🚨NEW: @Colombia students and faculty blocked the road at Broadway and 116th Street during a joint anti-ICE/Israel protest and were arrested. The songs included “From the River to the Sea.” pic.twitter.com/VZus7CGlE2
– Jewish and Israeli students from Colombia ✡️🇮🇱 (@CUJewsIsraelis) February 5, 2026
Ultimately, 12 arrests took place, including at least one teacher.
🚨BREAKING: NYPD arrests anti-ICE protesters who refused to stop blocking Broadway near Columbia University. pic.twitter.com/BKWkALcBM8
– Off The Press (@OffThePress1) February 5, 2026
The New York Times, of course, took care to interview the professor:
A dozen Columbia University faculty, staff and students were arrested Thursday after blocking traffic on Broadway for nearly an hour as they protested President Trump’s immigration crackdown and demanded that Columbia provide more protections for international students.
[…]
Mila Rosenthal, 58, an assistant professor of international and public affairs, was among those who chose to be arrested as part of an act of civil disobedience.
“We see what’s happening in Minneapolis, all this terror that ICE is spreading there,” she said before her arrest, referring to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency. “And there’s no reason why Columbia can’t say, ‘It stops here.'”
SMH. Some things never change.
Editor’s note: Democratic politicians and their radical supporters will do everything they can to interfere with and threaten ICE agents who enforce our immigration laws.
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