House Democrat: Columbia Could Have Stopped Chaos by Threatening to Revoke Activists’ Visas
Rep. Ritchie Torres (D-NY) stated that if Columbia University President Minouche Shafik had threatened to expel or revoke the visas of students in the encampment on campus and fire members of the faculty who were in the encampment and followed through on these threats, “this situation could have been resolved decisively.”