Anti-Israel protester Momodou Taal, a Cornell University international graduate student who sued the Trump administration after he
Momodou Taal, a dual citizen of Gambia and the U.K., was an international graduate student at Cornell University. (Bing Guan/Bloomberg/Getty)
After his student visa was revoked by authorities, Taal, a British-Gambian student, took urgent legal action in an attempt to avoid being detained or deported. Nonetheless, U.S. District Judge Elizabeth C. Coombe ruled against his requests to temporarily stop the deportation process and the enforcement of the two executive orders on Thursday.
Taal expressed his intention to present a second argument in court in the hopes of avoiding detention, but he eventually lost confidence in being able to move freely without the risk of being taken away against his will.
He commented, “Although this was not the result I had hoped for, it is evident that we are up against a government that does not value the judicial system or the principles of the law.”
Taal, who has been an anti-Israel student activist since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, has praised the “resistance” against Israel several times on his X account. Despite being accepted on a student visa in 2022, Taal has also posted about his “hatred” for the U.S. and called for “the end of the US empire.”
Fox News’ Michael Dorgan and Jamie Joseph contributed to this report.
