A pro-Palestinian activist and foreign graduate student at Cornell University who was facing deportation 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 Monday. “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 three Cornell students who sued on March 15 to challenge a pair of presidential orders signed by President Donald Trump on Jan. 29.
One mandates stricter screening and vetting procedures to prevent individuals deemed national security risks from entering the country. The other calls for, among other things, holding those engaged in “anti-Semitic harassment and violence” accountable….