Momodou Taal, a British Gambian pro-Palestine activist and former PhD student at Cornell University, has announced that he has left the United States voluntarily amid fears of personal safety and threats of deportation.

In a statement shared on social media, Taal expressed his gratitude to those who have supported him throughout this ordeal.

“Today I took the decision to leave the United States, free and with my head held high,” Momodou Taal wrote in a post on X.

Taal’s visa was revoked over his involvement in pro-Palestinian campus protests and demonstrations.

He sued the Trump administration, challenging two executive orders that targeted pro-Palestinian and anti-genocide activism.

He recounts how the Trump administration attempted to prevent his day in court, sending US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)  agents to his home and revoking his visa.

Despite a court denial of his first motion, Taal had hoped a second briefing would allow him to remain in the country while the lawsuit proceeded.

“Given what we have seen across the United States, I have lost faith that a favorable ruling from the courts would guarantee my personal safety and ability to express my beliefs.

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

Taal said the US government has “no respect” for the judiciary or for the rule of law.

The student strongly denounces the silence of those who have not spoken out against the ongoing genocide in Palestine: “For every person that has remained silent, just know that you are not safe either. Is the imprisonment of those who speak out against a genocide a reflection of your values? Is this the kind of nation you want to live in?”

 “The repression of Palestinian solidarity is now being used to wage a wholesale attack on any form of expression that challenges oppressive and exploitative relations in the US,” he also writes.

Reaffirming his commitment to a liberated Palestine and urging continued support, he said, “Do not seek to secure your personal safety by undermining the Palestinian right of resistance.”

“A world where genocidal violence can be waged with impunity is a world built on hatred and cowardice. Such a world will, over time, destroy itself entirely. The only future, the only world, we can accept is one that will have a liberated and reconstructed Gaza at its heart.”

Momodou is not an isolated case. The Trump administration recently revoked the visas of hundreds of students due to their pro-Palestine activism.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio recently confirmed that the administration of Donald Trump had revoked the visas of “maybe more than 300” people allegedly tied to pro-Palestinian university protests.

Rubio labeled those with revoked visas “lunatics.”

The US authorities have detained several foreign-born students legally residing in the States on the accusation of involvement in pro-Palestinian protests.

Media reports earlier said the Trump administration had initiated an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-assisted drive to detect and annul the visas of foreign nationals and students supporting the Palestinian resistance movement Hamas on American soil.