Levitt, a student at Columbia’s Teachers College, was in New Jersey teaching when she heard about Aghayeva. “I wasn’t able to focus for the rest of the day,” she said. She had missed the emergency campus-wide rally at noon but still wanted to do her part. Hundreds of students and locals had held up signs with messages such as “No one is illegal on stolen land” and “ICE Lies.”journey-inline-newsletterinline-newsletter