Summary
ICE demanded that Momodou Taal, a Cornell PhD student and UK-Gambia dual citizen, surrender
after he sued the Trump administration over executive orders targeting foreign students in pro-Palestinian protests.
Taal, backed by the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, seeks to block deportation.
The request came soon after his lawyers sought a restraining order. Critics call the move unprecedented and politically motivated.
Taal fears arrest and deportation, while two other plaintiffs, both US citizens, claim the crackdown violates free speech rights on campus.
I would argue that immigration is a right, not just a privilege. If people want to be Americans, the government should not be able to stop them.
I would argue that it’s not, and it’s one of few jobs that the government is responsible for.
You know that the first immigration law in the US was called?
The Asian Exclusion Act.
Immigration control was and always has been about maintaining white racial supremacy.
I’m pretty sure the first one in America was passed by Native Americans about the European immigrants. Tell me how that turned out.