In an email, Interim President Katrina Armstrong wrote that she was “heartbroken” to inform students and faculty of the federal agents’ visit. The students were not arrested or

Columbia University has expelled several students for their involvement in pro-Palestrinian protests last year as the Ivy League school faces mounting pressure from the Trump administration to crack down on antisemitism on campus.

Nearly 100 arrests were made at Trump Tower in Midtown after hundreds of Jewish New Yorkers and friends packed into the lobby to protest the arrest and detainment of Columbia graduate Mahmoud Khalil.Video taken Thursday afternoon showed officers handcuffing some of the demonstrators associated with Jewish Voice for Peace -- an organization that is critical of many of Israel's policies regarding Palestinians.