New York City police took 80 people into custody after responding to protests on Columbia's campus, the police department said.

Federal authorities are reviewing the visa status of all those taken into custody, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on X.

Student protestors took over a room of Columbia University's Butler Library in a resurgence of the on-campus protests against the institution's ties to Israel that rocked the nation last spring and inspired similar protests and encampments at colleges and universities country-wide.