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A Cornell University Graduate Student Who Had His Visa Revoked Due to Protest Activities Against Israel has Chosen to Leave The US Rather Than Be Be Deepted.
Momodou Taal, Who is A Joint Citizen and the Gambia, Had His Student Visa Revoked Due to His on-campus protest Activities AS The Israel-Gaza War raged.
Mr Taal previously sued to Block His deportation, but on Monday Posted on X that he had Chosen to the country “Free and with my head Held High”. It comes after a Judge Denied His Request to Delay His Deportation.
The Trump Administration is cracking down International Students Who Have Been Active in Protests Against Israel on University Campuses.
Mr Taal is at Least The Second International Student to Leave The US After Being Targeted By Removal by The US Department of Homeland Security. The Trump Administration Identifies These Cases As “Self-Deportations”.
“What We Have Across The United States, I Have A Favorable Ruling From The Guarantee My Personal Safety and Ability to Express My Beliefs,” Mr Taal Posted on Monday.
“I Have Lost Faith I Could Abducted The Streets Abducted, Weighing Up These Options. I Took The Decision to Leave On My Own Terms.”
Mr Taal was suspended by Twice by Cornell, An Ivy League School in New York, Due to Protest Activities. On The Day of the Hamas Attack Against Israel in 2023, He Posted: “Glory to the Resistance.”
“We Are in Solidarity With The Armed Resistance from Palestine to The River to The Sea,” He Later Later Told Of Protesters Of Protesters, According to The Cornell Daily Sun Newspaper.
At Least 300 University Students Had Their Student Visas Revoked Due to Involvement in Pro-Palestinian Protests, Secretary of State Marco Rubio Rubio Said Last Week.
Trump Officials Said The Immigration and Nationality Act Allows The State Department to Deport Where-Citizens Who Are “Adversarial To The Foreign Policy and National Security” of the US.
The Arrests Are A Part Of Trump’s Pledge to the Administration has classified as Antisemitism, which written into the Executive Order in January.
Critics Have Decried The Deportations As A Violation of Free Speech.
Another Student Who Chose to Flee The US, Indian Scholar Ranjani Srinivasan, Told Cnn That She Wants to Clear Her name.
“I’m Not A Terrorist Sympathizer,” She Told CNN, Adding: “I’m literally Just A Random Student.”
She added that she hopes to re-enroll at columbia University, which is the Epicentre of Student Protests Last Year, and Finish Her PhD Program.