Pro-Palestinian protester on student visa among the first to self deport

A Cornell University doctoral student announced on Monday he was leaving the United States weeks after his student visa was revoked.

Momodou Taal, 31, sued the Trump administration in an attempt to reverse his immigration status and avoid turning himself in to Immigration and Customs Enforcement as the agency requested with the March 21 deadline. He is one of several students whose visas have been revoked by the Trump administration over anti-Israel activities and was suspended twice by Cornell last year for refusing to leave a campus encampment.

Taal was pursuing a degree in Africana Studies and is a dual citizen of the U.K. and The Gambia. The day after his visa was revoked, Taal joined fellow doctoral student Sriram Parasurama and Prof. Mukoma wa Ngugi

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