NYPD Takes Care of Business After Anti-ICE

Late last week, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) once again did her half to pander to felony unlawful immigrants in the Empire State in an election 12 months by proposing laws that would successfully end any local authorities cooperation with ICE.

Hochul dubbed her proposal the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, emphasizing that police officers don’t need to help ICE with civil immigration enforcement in order to keep communities protected. “(ICE) has over $85 billion at their disposal … so they have what they need,” Hochul said at her Manhattan workplace on Friday. “So don’t buy the argument we have to be there because ICE needs help … We have other responsibilities for our local law enforcement.”

Not surprisingly, between Hochul’s actions and New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani (DS) calling for ICE to be abolished, anti-ICE agitators are clearly emboldened, one thing that performed out in the Big Apple earlier in the day as demonstrators – including some school members – threw tantrums exterior of Columbia University in demanding they do a better job of defending “international students” on campus, which they need to be a “sanctuary campus.”

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Here are some videos from the scene (language warning):

🚨BREAKING: Mask-wearing, anti-ICE protestors have descended on Columbia University to demand the college stop cooperating with the Trump administration. pic.twitter.com/fUb0II38LW

— Off The Press (@OffThePress1) February 5, 2026

🚨BREAKING: Anti-ICE protestors are blocking Broadway exterior the entrance gate of Columbia University in Manhattan. pic.twitter.com/N4VfihsSq6

— Off The Press (@OffThePress1) February 5, 2026

🚨BREAKING: New York City police are threatening to arrest anti-ICE protestors blocking Broadway exterior of Columbia University. pic.twitter.com/oRJPFzv2AP

— Off The Press (@OffThePress1) February 5, 2026

🚨NEW: @Columbia college students and school have blocked the street on Broadway and 116th in a joint anti-ICE/Israel protest and have been arrested. Chants included “From the river to the sea.” pic.twitter.com/VZus7CGlE2

— Columbia Jewish & Israeli Students ✡️🇮🇱 (@CUJewsIsraelis) February 5, 2026

Eventually, 12 arrests had been made, including at least one professor.

🚨BREAKING: NYPD is arresting anti-ICE protestors who refused to stop blocking Broadway close to Columbia University. pic.twitter.com/BKWkALcBM8

— Off The Press (@OffThePress1) February 5, 2026

The New York Times, of course, made sure to interview the prof:

A dozen Columbia University school and workers members and college students had been taken into custody on Thursday after blocking site visitors on Broadway for practically an hour as they protested President Trump’s immigration crackdown and demanded that Columbia present more protections for worldwide college students.

[…]

Mila Rosenthal, 58, an adjunct professor of worldwide and public affairs, was among those who selected to be arrested as an act of civil disobedience.

“We’re seeing what’s happening in Minneapolis, just all of that terror that ICE is sowing there,” she said before her arrest, referring to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement company. “And there’s no reason that Columbia can’t say, ‘This ends here.’”

SMH. Some issues never change.

Editor’s Note: Democrat politicians and their radical supporters will do the whole lot they will to intervene with and threaten ICE brokers implementing our immigration legal guidelines.

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