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Fifth Column

NYC college distributing ‘know your rights' pamphlets to help students defy Trump deportations

2025-03-27

[FoxNews] New York City arts college, The Cooper Union, is attempting to thwart the Trump administration’s efforts to deport foreign students accused of supporting Hamas, a campus-wide email obtained by Fox News Digital revealed.

"The news of the arrest by federal agents of a Columbia University graduate and the raid of two Columbia University dorm rooms in the last week is deeply troubling," the email began, sent by Associate Dean of Students Grace Kendall and Vice President for Enrollment Troy Kogburn.

"In addition, the State Department announced a new effort to utilize AI to review student visa holders’ social media accounts to identify individuals who appear to support Hamas or other designated terror groups. Please know that we are monitoring these situations closely," it continued.

The email went on to warn students with "less secure" immigration status about the risks associated with protest activity and social media posts about protest activity. It also announced that the administration would be distributing "Know Your Rights" pamphlets to assist students who fear deportation, and listed members of faculty who could provide assistance.

If this gets the vicious idiots to stop their “protests” and to stop attacking those they assume to be Jewish, and to be considerably more circumspect in their social media posts and social associations, I am all for it. The goal is not kicking them out of the country, but to get them and their fellow travelers to act as if they were civilized. Although actually this lot have already so badly misbehaved that all this will do is improve the school atmosphere until they’ve been picked up and kicked out. But at least those who follow will understand the risks and act accordingly.

"The Cooper Union does not tolerate nor support endorsement of terrorist groups or their actions. Our focus is 100% on supporting our full community of students, including international students. The purpose of our communication was not to endorse any student actions or positions, but rather to educate our students so they can make informed decisions," a representative for Cooper Union told Fox News Digital.

The university has emerged as a symbol of the nationwide antisemitic surge on college campuses. In October 2023, weeks after Hamas launched their brutal terrorist attack which saw the most Jews killed on a single day since the Holocaust, Jewish students were forced to take refuge in a library as they were surrounded by an unruly mob of anti-Israel demonstrators who beat on the doors and banged on the windows of the space.

The Lower East Side school was harshly reprimanded by a Manhattan judge last month after it argued a lawsuit brought by students in the matter should be dismissed on the grounds that they should have left the building or hid in a room above the library.

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