The Trump administration is tightening its grip on efforts to quash pro-Palestinian demonstrations on college campuses, even as a protest over the detention of activist Mahmoud Khalil flared at the president’s New York City residence and resistance efforts continue in the courts and beyond.

Police said they arrested 98 people, marching under the banner of the group called Jewish Voice for Peace, for crimes including trespassing. The group, which caught security and police off guard, chanted 'fight Nazis,

The sit-in was organized by Jewish Voice for Peace, an anti-Zionist Jewish organization, and took place under the golden escalator where Donald Trump launched his first presidential campaign in 2015.

The university’s escalation in disciplinary action comes as campus tensions are at a recent high following the detention of Mahmoud Khalil.

The student’s lawyers argue he engaged in protected free speech and that the government is illegally retaliating against him over it.

Columbia University on Thursday said it had doled out a range of punishments to students who occupied a campus building last spring during pro-Palestinian protests. The announcement came a week after President Donald Trump's administration announced that it had canceled $400 million in federal grants and contracts in response to what it said was the Ivy League school's poor response to antisemitism on campus.

Nearly 100 protesters arrested after sit-in at Trump Tower in NYC to demand release of Mahmoud Khalil. Khalil became one of the faces of the protests against Israel at Columbia University last spring and now faces possible deportation.