Tracy Mumford

A superintendent let them in.

Columbia says they then repeated the same story at the door of the student's apartment, even showing a picture of the alleged missing child.

At that point, the agents arrested an undergrad student.

When asked to show a warrant, they did not.

Within hours, Colombia's acting president sent out an urgent statement about the arrest, and some 200 people showed up for an emergency rally at the school.

By total chance, New York City's mayors, Oran Mamdani, happened to be on his way to the White House for an unrelated meeting with President Trump.

In social media posts, Mamdani said he raised the arrest with the president.

Trump later told him she would be released, and she was.

The Department of Homeland Security, however, says her deportation case is still active because she does not have a valid student visa.

DHS has also disputed Columbia's version of events, saying the agents were wearing badges and had verbally identified themselves.

It's simply shocking.

It shocks the conscience.

True.

Some New York officials, meanwhile, condemned the agents for entering school property under what they said were false pretenses.

And in a statement, New York Governor Kathy Hochul said, quote, no one should disappear at the hands of the government.

In Texas, for the second time this month, the FAA has closed a pocket of American airspace over concerns about a high-energy laser that the government's been using.

The Department of Defense used the laser yesterday to shoot down a drone over a small border town near El Paso.

It's very similar to what happened in early February when the same technology was used to take down what Customs and Border Protection thought was a drone but turned out to be a balloon.

The laser's an example of increasingly powerful anti-drone technology that's raised concerns over what could happen if it's used near commercial airplanes.

In both cases, the laser was used without the FAA's approval, and the agency then abruptly closed the nearby airspace out of caution.