The State Department is reviewing the visa status of the “trespassers and vandals” who stormed Columbia University’s library Wednesday, according to Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

“Pro-Hamas thugs are no longer welcome in our great nation,” Rubio said in a post on X Wednesday night, reports The Post Millennial.

Earlier in the day, around 100 pro-Palestinian protesters connected with the Columbia University Apartheid Divest (CUAD), a campus protest movement, took over the New York school’s main library, posting in a statement that as “long as Columbia funds and profits from imperialist violence, people will continue to disrupt Columbia’s profits and legitimacy. Repression breeds resistance.”

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