The Trump administration has revoked the visa of Momodou Taal, a Cornell University graduate student who has called for the destruction of the United States, celebrated Hamas’s October 7 attacks, claimed to take his “cue from the armed resistance in Palestine,” and said “every single Zionist is a sick sick individual,” the Washington Free Beacon has learned.
Momodou Taal, a British and Gambian dual national, began studying at Cornell in 2022 on an F-1 student visa, which he no longer holds, according to a State Department official.
Taal’s lawyers confirmed in a court filing that the administration asked Taal to surrender to Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials at a facility in Syracuse, N.Y., for deportation proceedings. The request came in an early-morning email from the Department of Justice on Friday, the filing shows.
“ICE invites Mr. Taal and his counsel to appear in-person at the HSI Office in Syracuse at a mutually agreeable time for personal service of the NTA and for Mr. Taal to surrender to ICE custody,” wrote DOJ attorney Ethan Kanter in the email. “NTA” refers to a notice to appear, an ICE document that begins removal proceedings against a foreign national.
Taal’s lawyers asked a federal judge to block the deportation actions on an emergency basis, arguing that Taal was being targeted for deportation because of a federal lawsuit he filed against President Donald Trump’s executive order calling for the revocation of visas given to foreign students who support terrorism. […]
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