A Student Throws in the Towel: With visa revoked, Cornell student activist chooses to leave US

Update:

Eid Mubarak

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— Momodou ✊ (@MomodouTaal) March 31, 2025

It clearly is a risky time to be a foreign student activist.  Here is the latest.

CNN reports that a Cornell “student whose visa was revoked over his participation in pro-Palestinian campus demonstrations says he is leaving the United States voluntarily after a judge declined to immediately block the government from taking steps to deport him.”

According to CNN, “Momodou Taal, a doctoral candidate in Africana Studies, had his student visa revoked due to his involvement in `disruptive protests,’ and for disregarding university policies and creating a hostile environment for Jewish students . . . .”

“I have lost faith I could walk the streets without being abducted,” Taal said on X, “Weighing up these options, I took the decision to leave on my own terms.”

KJ