Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has called on Cornell University doctoral students and prominent Palestinian protesters to surrender themselves to a deportation lawsuit after he sued the Trump administration preemptively, his lawyer said.
Momodou Taal’s lawyers said on Friday that ICE ordered Taal to surrender and put pressure on him after ICE called for a judge’s temporary restraining order to prevent the Trump administration from detaining him and deporting him. According to a representative of Tar, he sought a restraining order after Ice sent an agent to wager his house.
“Ice invites Mr. Tar and his lawyer to appear towards HSI [Homeland Security Investigations] NTA’s personal service mutually comfortable times in Syracuse offices [Notice to Appear] And for Mr. Tar to surrender to ice custody.” Email Sent on Friday from a partial reading by a Department of Justice prosecutor, According to To Cornell’s daily sun.
The NTA is the first step towards deportation. According to To CNN. (Related: “There’s a connection”: Trump’s DHS grabs another foreign student due to suspicious terrorism)
Prosecutors said that while applications for admission to New York’s federal court are pending, they “reach out to establish a line of communication and link information about their clients,” according to the email.
“In the last 48 hours, the administration has taken unprecedented steps to bypass the court by pressureating his client, Momodou Taal to surrender to the ice,” said one of Taal’s lawyers. I wrote it Partially.
“The Trump administration responded to Momodutar’s lawsuit, which challenged the constitutionality of the executive order by sending agents to wager his house,” wrote Eric Lee, Tar’s chief lawyer. “When he asked the court to hold Mr. Tar to be detained as the lawsuit progressed, the administration ordered him to surrender to the ice. This does not happen in democracy.”
Submitted by Taal’s lawyers and the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC). Litigation It is forbidden to use two people in the Trump administration Executive order “Allow deportation or prosecution based on protected speech,” ADC I said March 16th.
I’m suing Trump.
Here is my statement: pic.twitter.com/sw9uv1f4yy
– Momodou✊🏿 (@momodoutaal) March 16, 2025
Sriram Parasurama, a doctoral student in plant science in the lawsuit and Taal and two other plaintiffs, identified as a professor of literature in English, are professors of literature in Mũkomawangũgĩ – felt the “cold effect” of the executive order.
Taal is a British Gambia Dr. Candidate for the Africana Studies and Research Center in Cornell, the ADC said. Ivy League University suspended him twice in 2024 due to destructive on-campus political activity. According to To Cornell’s daily sun. According to the ADC, the other two plaintiffs are U.S. citizens.
All three plaintiffs “have now engaged in constitutionally protected expressions that are critical of US foreign policy and fear government retaliation for supporting Palestinian human rights,” the lawsuit read in part.
Kari said the incident was a “litmus test for the state of free speech in America.” Lee said that Ice’s demand for surrender to Tar should infuriate all Americans and eager to defend free speech.
Law enforcement appeared at Tar’s home and at Cornell University campus. Posted X. He reiterated his commitment to pro-Palestinian activism, claiming that the Trump administration is trying to detain him proactively.
tar Posted October 7, 2023 – The same day Hamas launched a lightning terrorist attack on Israel – The “Glory of Resistance!” post attracted criticism.
