{"id":2564361,"date":"2026-02-03T20:41:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:41:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abbott-says-violent-student-anti-ice-protesters-schools-backing-them-shouldnt-be-above-the-law-5980380\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T20:42:31","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T01:42:31","slug":"abbott-says-violent-student-anti-ice-protesters-schools-backing-them-shouldnt-be-above-the-law-5980380","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/abbott-says-violent-student-anti-ice-protesters-schools-backing-them-shouldnt-be-above-the-law-5980380\/","title":{"rendered":"Abbott Says Violent Student Anti-ICE Protesters, Schools Backing Them Shouldn\u2019t Be Above the Law"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fabbott-says-violent-student-anti-ice-protesters-schools-backing-them-shouldnt-be-above-the-law-5980380%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=2564361&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>The piece describes two related developments: a January 14, 2026 protest by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-education-sec-on-womens-school-sports-we-have-a-legal-responsibility-to-include-transgender-athletes\/\" title=\"Biden Education Sec On Women...s School Sports: We Have a \u2018Legal Responsibility... to Include Transgender Athletes\">high school students<\/a> against immigration enforcement outside the Minnesota State Capitol in St. Paul, documented with a photo credit to Octavio Jones of AFP\/Getty Images; and Texas Governor Greg Abbott\u2019s call for legal consequences for violent student protesters and the schools that support them, as part of an examination into an Austin school district. Abbott, in a February 3 post on X, said it\u2019s \u201cabout time\u201d such students were arrested, arguing that harming someone is a crime\u2014even for students, and attaching a video showing a <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >public school student resisting arrest<\/a>.  <\/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<div data-testid=\"top-media\"><picture><source type=\"image\/webp\"><source type=\"image\/jpeg\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture><figcaption>\n<p><span>High school students protest against ICE outside the State Capitol in St. Paul, Minn., on Jan. 14, 2026. <\/span><span><span>Octavio Jones\/AFP via Getty Images<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<div data-post-content=\"true\" id=\"post_content\" data-testid=\"post_content\">\n<p>Texas Gov. Greg Abbott called for violent student protesters demonstrating against immigration agents, and schools supporting them, to face legal consequences as the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-protecting-raphael-warnocks-old-charity-from-legal-trouble-has-warnock-himself-to-thank-for-her-job\/\" title=\"Judge Protecting Raphael Warnock&#039;s Old Charity From Legal Trouble Has Warnock Himself To Thank for Her Job\">state investigates<\/a> an Austin school district.<\/p>\n<p>&#8203;&ldquo;It&rsquo;s about time students like this were arrested. Harming someone is a crime&mdash;even for students,&rdquo; Abbott said in a Feb. 3 post on X that attached a video showing a public school student resisting arrest.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abbott seeks charges against violent student protesters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":904,"featured_media":2564362,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/02\/03\/id5980013-Student-protest-3-1080x720.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543,33651],"tags":[3697,57500,54689],"class_list":["post-2564361","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","category-the-western-journal","tag-abbott","tag-anti-ice-protests","tag-student-protests"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2026\/02\/03\/id5980013-Student-protest-3-1080x720.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564361","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2564361"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564361\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2564365,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2564361\/revisions\/2564365"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2564362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2564361"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2564361"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2564361"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}