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House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., sent a scathing missive to apical Biden officials astir nan ongoing anti-Israel protests astatine Columbia University, demanding national involution to protect Jewish students.
In a missive dated Tuesday, Stefanik wrote to Education Secretary Miguel Cardona, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and Attorney General Merrick Garland. The New York congresswoman did not mince words erstwhile describing nan disarray caused by nan anti-Israel protests astatine nan New York City Ivy League institution, threatening Jewish students and faculty.
Classes astatine Columbia will beryllium wholly virtual for nan remainder of nan semester owed to nan protesters "taking over" nan campus. New York City Mayor Eric Adams blamed "outside agitators" for fanning nan flames during a property convention connected Tuesday.
Stefanik called attraction to nan antisemitic sentiment among protesters successful her letter.
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTERS: 5 DRAMATIC MOMENTS FROM A WEEK OF CHAOS
House GOP Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., sent a scathing missive to apical Biden officials astir nan caller anti-Israel protests astatine Columbia University. (Getty Images)
"Over nan past fewer days, chaos has engulfed nan field of Columbia University and created an situation that is unsafe for Jewish students and faculty,' she wrote. "You person nan expertise and authority to put a extremity to this and return actual steps to clasp accountable those responsible."
The House Republican went connected to picture nan protesters arsenic an "unsanctioned mob of students and agitators permitted to proceed to target Jewish students," and cited antisemitic incidents that person occurred arsenic a consequence of their activity.
"Consequences are needed for those who are calling for coercion and convulsive attacks," she wrote. Stefanik cited nan Immigration and Nationality Act, which states that anyone who endorses coercion tin go ineligible for American residency, and noted that protesters are "brazenly endorsing Hamas and different terrorist organizations."
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY PRESIDENT ORDERS VIRTUAL CLASSES AS ANTI-ISRAEL PROTESTS TAKE OVER: 'WE NEED A RESET'
House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., speaks during a news convention arsenic Speaker of nan House Mike Johnson, R-La., left, and Rep. Marc Molinaro, R-N.Y., look on. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)
"By allowing this support for panic to continue, this wicked ideology is capable to spread," Stefanik argued. "I request that you enforce existing rule to revoke nan visas and deport students present connected visas who are suspended for their antisemitic actions."
The Republican besides called for nan Department of Education to clasp Columbia accountable by revoking immoderate national backing that nan Ivy League schoolhouse receives.
"It is past clip for nan Department of Education to people nan findings of [President's Biden's Title VI] investigation and clasp nan assemblage accountable," she wrote. "Furthermore, nan Department must return action to revoke immoderate national backing flowing to Columbia and akin institutions truthful taxpayers are not backing nan ongoing discrimination."
Anti-Israel agitators conception an encampment connected Columbia University’s field successful New York City Monday. (Peter Gerber)
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Fox News Digital reached retired to nan offices of Secretary Mayorkas and Attorney General Garland for comment.
Fox News Digital's Danielle Wallace contributed to this report.
