A graduate student at the University of Cornell, who has been canceled in his American visa due to protest activities against Israel, has chosen to leave the United States and not be deported.
Momoduo Taal, who is a joint citizen of the United Kingdom and Gambia, was abolished by his student visa due to his protest activities on campus last year when the Israeli war raged.
Previously, Taal filed a case to block his deportation, but on Monday he published on X that he had chosen to leave the country “free and with my head, held high”. This comes after a judge denied his request to delay his deportation.
The Trump administration is falling apart into international students who have been active in protests against Israel in university campuses.
D -Tal is at least the second international student to choose to leave the United States after being directed to the removal of the US Department of Interior Security. The Trump administration defines these cases as “only deportations”.
“Considering what we saw in the United States, I lost the belief that the favorable decision of the courts would guarantee my personal safety and ability to express my beliefs,” published G -Tal on X on Monday.
“I lost the belief that I could walk the streets without being abducted, weighing these options. I decided to leave under my own conditions.”
D -Taal was stopped twice by Cornell, Ivy League School in New York, due to protest activities. On the day of Hamas's attack on Israel in 2023, he published: “Glory of Resistance.”
“We are in solidarity with the armed resistance in Palestine from the river to the sea,” he said later to a crowd of protesters, according to Cornell everyday sun newspaper.
At least 300 students have canceled their student visas due to participation in propalist protests, said Secretary of State Marco Rubio last week.
Trump staff said the Immigration and Nationality Act allows the State Department to deport non -organized, “associates in the interests of foreign policy and national security” of the United States.
Arrests are part of Trump's promise to fight what the administration classifies as anti -Semitism, which was written in an executive order in January.
Critics have identified deportations as a violation of freedom of expression.
Another student who chose to escape from the United States, Indian scientist Ranjani Srinivasan told CNN that he wanted to clear his name.
“I'm not a terrorist sympathizer,” she told CNN, adding, “I'm literally just a casual student.”
She added that she hoped to refine herself at Columbia University, which was the epicenter of student protests last year and completed his doctoral program.