US EditionCornell student activist chooses to leave US after judge denies bid to immediately block deportation
- A Cornell PhD student, Momodou Taal, announced he is leaving the U.S. Amid threats of immigration arrest during a lawsuit against the Trump administration.
- Taal, along with others, claims executive orders threaten non-citizens and alleged violations of the First and Fifth Amendments.
- A federal court denied Taal's emergency request to halt arrest attempts, stating that it lacked jurisdiction over his visa revocation.
- Taal expressed loss of faith in U.S. Judicial safety, stating, 'I feel like a stranger in my country.
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Who is Momodou Taal? Cornell University facing deportation flees US, ‘Trump did not want me to have my day in court’
Momodou Taal, whose student visa was revoked because of his involvement in anti-Israel campus protests, has fled the US to dodge arrest by authorities.
Cornell Foreign Student Who Sued Trump Admin Self-Deports
A pro-Palestinian activist and foreign graduate student at Cornell University who was facing deportation has said he is voluntarily leaving the United States. “I have lost faith I could walk the streets without being abducted,” Momodou Taal said in a statement posted to social media platform X on March 31. “Weighing up these options, I took the decision to leave on my own terms.” Taal, a dual citizen of the United Kingdom and Gambia, is one of t…
Anti-Israel Cornell University student fighting Trump deportation flees US before ICE can arrest him
Momodou Taal, a dual citizen of the UK and Gambia, claimed he left the country "free and with my head held high" after a federal judge declined to halt his possible detention while he tried to fight his deportation in court.
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