A British-Gambian Ph.D. The student at Cornell University, who faced possible deportation after participating in pre-Palestinian protests, said Monday he had left the United States.
The student, Momodou Taal, who had been suspended by the university at least twice, including participation in what he said was an incredible protest, is one of the at least nine international students who the Trump’s administration tried to remove from the country because of the activities it calls.
Mr Taal had not been detained, unlike some of the other students, and had filed a lawsuit trying to prevent the legal process against him.
In a statement on the social media platform X, Mr Taal said he had left the country. “I made the decision to leave the United States, free and with my head high,” Mr. Taal wrote. He said that the federal staff of immigration and customs enforcement had come to his home and recalled his view. The Agency reported a request for commenting on the Ministry of Homeland Security.
“Given what we have seen in all the United States, I have lost the belief that a favorable decision by the courts will guarantee my personal security and ability to express my beliefs,” he said in a statement. He warned that others were also at risk and renewed his support for the Palestinians.
Mr Taal was one of the leaders of a protest scene on the Campus lawn in Cornell, in Ithaca, New York, in which students called on the university to assign his participation to companies who said they supported the military campaign. On October 7, 2023, the day Hamas attacked Israel and started the war, he wrote on the internet, “glory to resistance”.
After returning to the office in January, President Trump signed an executive order by saying that the United States would use “all available and appropriate legal tools” to “remove” foreigners involved in “illegal anti -Semitic harassment and violence”.
Last month, Ice staff were holding Mahmoud Khalil, a postgraduate student in Columbia. They have also requested others, including Yunseo Chung, a legitimate permanent resident who moved to the United States from South Korea when she was 7.
Trump administration officials have in many cases argued that a “visa is a privilege, not a right”. Proponents of civil rights have called on the effort to expulsion one of the greatest attacks on freedom of speech in the United States for decades.
The Ministry of Interior Security confirmed in a statement that Mr Taal had left the country and said: “It is a privilege to give him a visa to live and study in the United States of America.
Mr Taal, who holds the common British and Gambia citizenship, was in the United States for a student visa. Had worked for a Ph.D. In the Africana studies.
