A student from Cornell University who was confronted with deportation after his visa was withdrawn because of his campus activism, said he decided to leave the United States and explained: “Long the student of Intifada!”
Momodou Language, a citizen of the United Kingdom and Gambia, had asked a federal court to stop his detention after the Trump government forced him to surrender.
But on Monday he placed that he did not believe that a legal statement would, in his favor, guarantee his safety or ability to pronounce.
“I lost the confidence that I could walk through the streets without being abducted,” wrote Momodou Taal from an unknown location.
“Weigh these options, I made the decision to leave on my own conditions.”
He claimed that Donald Trump did not want me to have had my day in court and sent ice officers to my house and withdrew my visa. '
Language referred to Trump's White House as “a government that has no respect for the judiciary or for the rule of law.”
He then warned others that you are not safe either, even if you are silent in this situation.
A student from Cornell University who was confronted with deportation after his visa was withdrawn because of his campus activism, said he decided to leave the United States and explained: “Long the student of Intifada!”
He claimed that Donald Trump did not want me to have had my day in court and sent ice officers to my house and withdrew my visa '
Language asked: 'Is the imprisonment of those who speak out against a genocide a reflection of your values? Is this the kind of nation in which you want to live? '
He ended by saying that “history will relieve us” and added: “Long live the Intifada student!”
Intifada is an Arabic word for an uprising or uprising, or a resistance movement. The word has acquired connotations by two Palestinian revolts against Israel, between 1987 and 1993 and between 2000 and 2005.
The government says that the Language's student visa withdrew in March because of its involvement in 'disturbing protests', as well as for ignoring university policy and creating an enemy environment for Jewish students.
The Trump government has tried to remove non -citizens from the country to participate in campus protests that it considers anti -Semitic and sympathetic to the Militant Palestinian group Hamas.
Students say that the government focuses on them for pleading for Palestinian rights.
Language, a 31-year-old doctoral student in Africana Studies at the Ivy League school in Ithaca, New York, was suspended last fall after a group of Pro-Palestinian activists disrupted a campus career market.
He had continued his studies remotely.
Language, a citizen of the United Kingdom and Gambia, had asked a federal court to stop his detention. But he posted on X on Monday that he did not believe that a legal statement to his advantage is to guarantee his safety or ability to pronounce
Language has brought a federal court case against the Trump government, with reference to its right to freedom of expression.
The lawsuit was withdrawn on Monday.
In his position, language did not say where he was writing or where he intended to live.
He did not immediately respond to a text looking for comments.
“Everything I have tried to do has been employed to confirm the humanity of the Palestinian people, a struggle that will leave a permanent stamp on me,” Language wrote.
His lawyer, Eric Lee, did not immediately respond to a message to ask comments. Lee posted on X: “What is America if people like Momodou are not welcome here?”
People with ties with American universities, most of whom have shown support for anti-Israeli causes, have been detained in the occurrence of the Trump government against immigrants.
President Donald Trump and other civil servants have accused protesters and others of being 'pro-haamas', referring to the Palestinian militant group that attacked Israel on October 7, 2023.
Language has brought a federal court case against the Trump government, with reference to its right to freedom of expression. The lawsuit was withdrawn on Monday
Many protesters have said that they speak out against Israel's actions in the war against Hamas in Gaza.
The government of Trump has rarely cited a statute that the State Secretary authorizes to withdraw visa from non-citizens who can be considered a threat to foreign policy.
More than half a dozen people are known that they have been taken into custody or deported by American immigration and customs enforcement officials in recent weeks.
Among them is the 30-year-old Turkish student Rumeysa Ozturk, who was held on Tuesday while walking past a street in the outskirts of Boston.
A spokesperson for Senior Department of Homeland Security said without indications that Ozturk found that Ozturk, a doctoral student at Tufts University, was involved in activities in support of Hamas', which is also a terrorist group designated by the US.
Friends and colleagues from Ozturk said that her only known activism was co-author of an OP-ED in a student newspaper that called Tufts University to deal with the demands of students to break the ties with Israel.
Ozturk has been transferred to an ice detention center in Louisiana. An American district judge in Massachusetts said on Friday that Ozturk cannot be deported to Turkey without a judicial order and the government has given until Tuesday evening to respond to an updated complaint submitted by Ozturk's lawyers.
This month, immigration and held enforcement officers Mahmoud Khalil, a legal American resident, Palestinian activist and graduated student who was prominent last year in protests in Columbia.
The administration has said that it has withdrawn the green card from Khalil because his role in the campus protests amounted to anti -Semitic support for Hamas. He fights deportation.
