More than a dozen anti-ICE agitators hauled away by NYPD near Columbia University

More than a twelve anti-immigration enforcement agitators were arrested Thursday during a objection extracurricular Columbia University successful New York aft allegedly defying orders from the New York City Police Department (NYPD).

A NYPD spokesperson told Fox News Digital 13 agitators were taken into custody and issued transgression tribunal summons.

It is unclear if the agitators were students oregon unit affiliated with the university.

The slew of arrests came aft constabulary were called to a objection adjacent Columbia University astatine astir 1:30 p.m. section time.

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Columbia students, professors and activists held a rally extracurricular the assemblage to request that the schoolhouse found a sanctuary campus. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

Officers said agitators were blocking the school's entranceway and refused to leave.

Video showed the agitators wearing achromatic T-shirts that read, "Sanctuary Campus Now" and "ICE Off Campus."

Multiple orders were fixed to disperse. The NYPD says the orders were disobeyed astir 20 minutes.

NYPD officers apprehension agitators who blocked postulation connected Broadway arsenic they show against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) astatine Columbia University connected Feb. 5, 2026, successful New York City.  (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

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The agitators were taken into custody. 

In a connection posted to its website, the assemblage said it "supports the close of individuals to peacefully protest," but noted claims made against Columbia during Thursday's protestation were "factually incorrect."

"To beryllium clear, the University requires ICE to have a judicial warrant to entree non-public areas, specified arsenic classrooms, housing, and different areas requiring a Columbia University ID," assemblage officials wrote. "An administrative warrant is not capable to entree non-public areas of the University. We person a wide protocol for imaginable visits from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Agents, which are publically disposable connected our website."

NYPD officers springiness last warnings to agitators blocking postulation connected Broadway arsenic they show against Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) astatine Columbia University connected Feb. 5, 2026, successful New York City. (Michael M. Santiago/Getty Images)

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"As we made wide repeatedly, nary subordinate of Columbia’s enactment oregon the committee of trustees has ever requested the beingness of ICE agents connected oregon adjacent campus," the schoolhouse added. "This is simply a mendacious assertion."

Tensions stay precocious pursuing the apprehension of erstwhile Columbia pupil and anti-Israel activistic Mahmoud Khalil successful March 2025 astatine his Manhattan flat by national migration agents.

Khalil, a ineligible imperishable resident, was ordered to beryllium released from detention connected June 20, though a national appeals tribunal successful January recovered U.S. District Judge Michael Farbiarz of New Jersey lacked "subject-matter jurisdiction" nether national migration instrumentality to halt his deportation.

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Following the ruling, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) claimed the sentiment does not instrumentality effect instantly and the Trump medication cannot lawfully re-detain Khalil portion helium has the accidental to question contiguous review.

Fox News Digital's Ashley Carnahan contributed to this report.