When the protesters broke into the historic Hamilton Hall building. And just a few hours ago, 9 p. M. Tuesday night, officers in riot gear end to that building and swiftly made arrests. Columbia university has, of course, been the epicenter to the propalestinian protests that have now spread to campus. Around the country, hundreds of students have been arrested nationwide, and upcoming commencements are in danger of being canceled. Lets get straight to fox news correspond and rich edson for the latest on that raid at columbia. Hello, rich. Hello, jonathan. Columbia University Says the heightened activity on campus has ended and that the area has been cleared. This past evening, hundreds of new York City Police officers arrested dozens of protesters whod occupied and barricaded themselves in a Columbia University building. Officers scaled a Massive Police vehicle to enter columbias Hamilton Hall from a second floor window and then let out the protesters in zip ties. The University Says
citizens they will more rapidly be deported back to their home countries. jon: so which countries are we talking about that are sort of most tied into these gangs? is it mexico? other nations? reporter: well according to ice this really goes to about 26 major countries, however, mexico being the largest with this drug smuggling gangs and then you have the central american connection, and of course the coco producing nations of south america those being columbia and peru. according to ice this is a great effort here. what they are seeing is the traditional u.s. street gang is morphing from doing its own activities on u.s. streets to getting into business with these very serious international drug smuggling cartels which are then providing the cocaine, the meth, the marijuana at a very discounted rate to then get their new dealers on the street, and that is something that ice is definitely taking seriously, working with local law enforcement. again this all went down over