Trump signals that colleges allowing pro-Palestine protests could face funding cuts

US President Donald Trump on Tuesday threatened to slash the federal funding of colleges that allow what he called "illegal protests" - a reference to the pro-Palestine university encampments and similar movements that swept across the US last year. 

"All federal funding will STOP for any College, School or University that allows illegal protests," Trump wrote on his social media platform TruthSocial.

"Agitators will be imprisoned/or permanently sent back to the country from which they came," he said. "American students will be permanently expelled or, depending on the crime, arrested. NO MASKS!"