Late last week, New York Gov. Kathy Hochul (D) once again did her part to pander to criminal illegal immigrants in the Empire State in an election year by proposing legislation that would effectively end any local government cooperation with ICE.
Hochul dubbed her proposal the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act, emphasizing that police officers don’t need to assist ICE with civil immigration enforcement in order to keep communities safe. “(ICE) has over $85 billion at their disposal … so they have what they need,” Hochul said at her Manhattan office 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, something that played out in the Big Apple earlier in the day as demonstrators - including some faculty members - threw tantrums outside of Columbia University in demanding they do a better job of protecting "international students" on campus, which they want to be a "sanctuary campus."
Here are some videos from the scene (language warning):
🚨BREAKING: Mask-wearing, anti-ICE protestors have descended on Columbia University to demand the school stop cooperating with the Trump administration. pic.twitter.com/fUb0II38LW
— Off The Press (@OffThePress1) February 5, 2026
🚨BREAKING: Anti-ICE protestors are blocking 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 are threatening to arrest anti-ICE protestors blocking Broadway outside of Columbia University. pic.twitter.com/oRJPFzv2AP
— Off The Press (@OffThePress1) February 5, 2026
🚨NEW: @Columbia students and faculty have blocked the road 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 were made, including at least one professor.
🚨BREAKING: NYPD is arresting anti-ICE protestors 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, made sure to interview the prof:
A dozen Columbia University faculty and staff members and students were taken into custody on 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 adjunct professor of international and public affairs, was among those who chose 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 agency. “And there’s no reason that Columbia can’t say, ‘This ends here.’”
SMH. Some things never change.
Editor’s Note: Democrat politicians and their radical supporters will do everything they can to interfere with and threaten ICE agents enforcing our immigration laws.
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