{"id":2410440,"date":"2025-03-06T11:03:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T16:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-lays-down-the-law-with-spoiled-protesters-agitators-will-be-imprisoned\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T11:04:47","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T16:04:47","slug":"trump-lays-down-the-law-with-spoiled-protesters-agitators-will-be-imprisoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-lays-down-the-law-with-spoiled-protesters-agitators-will-be-imprisoned\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Lays Down the Law with Spoiled Protesters: &#8216;Agitators Will Be Imprisoned&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrump-lays-down-the-law-with-spoiled-protesters-agitators-will-be-imprisoned%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2410440&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Former President Donald Trump has announced\u2062 a controversial plan to cut federal funding for colleges and universities\u200d that permit &#8220;illegal protests.&#8221; In a recent statement, he emphasized\u200d that any educational \u2064institution \u2062allowing such protests would face funding \u200ccuts and\u200b suggested severe consequences\u200d for \u200dprotesters,\u2064 including\u2062 imprisonment \u2062or deportation for non-citizens, and expulsion for \u200dAmerican students. Trump&#8217;s comments come amid heightened tensions surrounding campus protests, especially those \u200drelated to pro-Hamas sentiments and anti-Semitic incidents, \u2063especially at schools like\u2062 Columbia University. His management had <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">previously warned institutions receiving\u2062 federal \u200dfunds<\/a> \u2064about their obligations to protect Jewish students. The ambiguity surrounding what constitutes an &#8220;illegal\u2062 protest&#8221;\u200b raises concerns among educational institutions about potential government intervention and funding consequences. Critics \u2062argue that university administrations have often failed \u2063to adequately address\u2064 incidents of anti-semitism, while Trump\u2019s threats aim to increase institutional\u2062 accountability regarding campus \u2063protests.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p>Spoiled campus protesters, look out: President Donald Trump is setting his sights on you and the schools you go to, as well.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest move targeting not one but two favorites of the establishment left &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/cops-uclas-pro-hamas-camp-immediately-ruin-students-day-spotting-robot-special-mission\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">pro-Hamas protesters<\/a> and college administrative offices &mdash; Trump promised to cut off federal funding for &ldquo;illegal protests&rdquo; on campuses, adding: &ldquo;NO MASKS!&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests,&rdquo; Trump said in a message on <a href=\"https:\/\/truthsocial.com\/@realDonaldTrump\/posts\/114104167452161158\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><\/a>  on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Agitators will be imprisoned\/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;NO MASKS! Thank you for your attention to this matter,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/BREAKING?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#BREAKING<\/a> President Trump posts on :<\/p>\n<p>All Federal Funding will STOP for any College, School, or University that allows illegal protests. Agitators will be imprisoned\/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came. American students will be permanently&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TejpRsvvb0\">pic.twitter.com\/TejpRsvvb0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Aviva Klompas (@AvivaKlompas) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AvivaKlompas\/status\/1896905210770899129?\">March 4, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/us\/trump-says-federal-funding-will-stop-colleges-schools-allowing-illegal-protests-2025-03-04\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> noted, Trump signed an executive order in January which &ldquo;restored a similar order he signed in 2019, instructing the Department of Education to investigate colleges that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/mayo-clinic-debuts-woke-policies-including-wearable-pronoun-buttons\/\" title=\"Mayo Clinic Debuts Woke Policies Including Wearable Pronoun Buttons\">receive federal funding<\/a> if they failed to protect Jewish students and staff from anti-Semitism.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>In February, members of the House Committee on Education and Workforce specifically put Columbia University in New York City &mdash; a locus of some of the most ugly, anti-Semitic protests in the wake of the Oct. 7 terror attacks against Israel by Hamas &mdash; on notice by sending a <a href=\"https:\/\/edworkforce.house.gov\/uploadedfiles\/2.13.25_columbia_letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">letter<\/a> to the university noting that &ldquo;Columbia has failed to uphold its commitments&rdquo; to &ldquo;combat the rampant anti-Semitism on Columbia&rsquo;s campus.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Columbia&rsquo;s continued failure to address the pervasive anti-Semitism that persists on campus is untenable, particularly given that the university receives billions in federal funding,&rdquo; the letter noted.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the <a href=\"https:\/\/ca.news.yahoo.com\/facing-trumps-threats-columbia-investigates-051902042.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Associated Press<\/a> reported, federal agencies announced that $51 million in contracts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/columbia-caves-mob-cancels-main-graduation-ceremony\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to the university<\/a> might be cut due to its &ldquo;ongoing inaction in the face of relentless harassment of Jewish students.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/columbia-university-antisemitism-investigation-contracts-e0680c1d3de85930a3ee9deaa7f42c62\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the AP<\/a>, a further review of whether the university would lose $5 billion in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/explosive-report-reveals-new-details-on-coronavirus-research-in-chinese-labs-including-third-lab\/\" title=\"Explosive Report Reveals New Details On Coronavirus Research In Chinese Labs, Including Third Lab\">federal grant money<\/a> was also underway.<\/p>\n<p>Columbia, for its part, said in a statement, &#8203;&#8203;&#8203;&#8203;&ldquo;We are resolute that calling for, promoting, or glorifying violence or terror has no place at our university.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s unclear what an &ldquo;illegal protest&rdquo; would entail, although a federal judge ruled last August that the University of California, Los Angeles must act to stop pro-Hamas protesters who were blocking Jewish students&rsquo; access to buildings, as <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/legal\/ucla-must-protect-jewish-students-access-campus-judge-rules-2024-08-14\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Reuters<\/a> noted at the time.<\/p>\n<p>It&rsquo;s also unclear how punishment would work or if the federal government would be involved in identifying &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/shocking-number-anti-israel-protesters-columbia-werent-students-law-enforcement\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">agitators<\/a>.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/04\/trump-university-funding-protests\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The U.K. Guardian<\/a> noted that &ldquo;[w]hile protests on campuses have waned in recent months, demonstrations erupted again last week in New York. They came in response to the New York governor, Kathy Hochul, ordering the City University of New York (CUNY) to remove a job posting advertising a Palestinian studies professor role at Hunter College, and the expulsion of two students from Barnard College who interrupted a class on Israel last month.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Of course, this could have all been avoided had sensible steps been taken in the first place: namely, campuses cracking down on hateful, violent protests that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/desperate-house-democrats-attempt-end-columbias-anti-israel-encampment-late\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">went far beyond what&rsquo;s protected by the First Amendment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Had these protests maintained the same tenor but instead protested the Palestinian response, they would have been called virulently Islamophobic and led to suspensions and expulsions.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, not only were these protesters coddled and mollified by the administrations of their various schools, there was often solidarity with the rabblement <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/three-columbia-deans-resign-deeply-upsetting-text-messages-leak\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">from faculty and administrators<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Watch how quickly that tune changes now that the meat and potatoes of the American university &mdash; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-claim-public-schools-mostly-run-by-dems-are-racist\/\" title=\"Dems Claim Public Schools Mostly Run By Dems Are Racist\">federal money &#038;mdash<\/a>; is at risk. Columbia, UCLA, and the like are fine with letting Jewish students be offended if it means they get a bit of bad press.<\/p>\n<p>Once you take away that sweet, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/harvard-loses-big-thanks-woke-investments-beat-oil-drilling-university-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sweet grant money<\/a>, however, that&rsquo;s where they draw the line. 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