Cornell PhD student Momodou Taal faces the loss of his visa after he was singled out for suspension over a pro-Palestine demonstration on campus
). But unlike thousands who have supported such grassroots actions in public spaces across the U.S., Taal now faces the prospect of being expelled from the country for it.
Taal says he is not aware of any other students among the dozens at the CML action currently up for suspension. The university did not respond to the question of whether anyone else was facing disciplinary action, while CUPD did not respond to indicate whether it had brought any complaint about the Sept. 18 protesters besides the one against Taal.
Now, with two years left in a PhD program he began in the fall of 2022, Taal is in a potentially far worse situation: at a Monday meeting, he says that Christina Liang, Senior Associate Dean of Students and Director of the OSCCS, informed him his suspension, or withdrawal, would become official on Tuesday or Wednesday.
As seemingly the lone individual selected for such consequences, Taal has become a cause in himself by spreading word of his possible de facto deportation on social media. “The process requires due process and investigation for any discipline issue, but they’re circumventing and subverting their own processes,” he says. As of Wednesday, he says, more than 4,000 people have signed anhosted on Google Docs titled “We Demand the Reinstatement of Momodou Taal.
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