A Cornell University student facing deportation after his visa was revoked because of his campus activism said he decided to leave the United States.
Momodou Taal, a citizen of the United Kingdom and Gambia, had asked a federal court to halt his detention. But he posted on X late Monday that he didn’t believe a legal ruling in his favor would guarantee his safety or ability to speak out.
“I have lost faith I could walk the streets without being abducted,” Momodou Taal wrote from an unknown location. “Weighing up these options, I took the decision to leave on my own terms.”
imagine someone comes over to your place and starts protesting and saying how bad you are :DDDD kicking them out seems like a sensible thing to do, no? Go back to Gambia/UK and protest there right? anyone? Come on, people now, people now, people now, come on, people now
Imagine if you criticize Biden then you get abuducted on the street and throw into a prison for months, then a foreign prison for god knows how long, and finally your ancestral land (unless you are a native American).
I know that is not a country I want to contribute to, but from this comment, you seem to enjoy that.
Ironic
Hearing new voices with perspectives shaped by new places and ideas strengthens us. That is the underlying principle of freedom of speech and freedom of the press in liberal democracies.
You argue for weakness: weakness of mind, weakness of spirit, and weakness of morals.
computer says no
You’re a cunt
Don’t call them that. Cunts can be useful.
Ah, proper American values on display. Total obedience to the power, never raising a voice about anything, always staying in line, never having opinion different from what the Glorious Leader says.
And I’m actually not joking, based on the actions, it is as closest you can have to the proper American values.
you’re a dumbass
You’re a carbon processing unit
You speak like a LLM
Imagine having a place that not only allows freedom of speech, but PRIDES itself on freedom of speech, then denying and prosecuting speech they don’t like.
What, you want them to lie to you to your face?
Are you having a stroke?
The Gambia already recognizes Palestine as a state.
Lol got the attention you were seeking?
You are probably just trolling, but your point is not entirely wrong. If you have been advertising your house as the land of the free, and specifically compare your house to other houses that aren’t free, it changes the picture a bit. Then add on that you let anyone from your neighborhood trash talk your house, but anyone from outside the neighborhood that you invite in you don’t. That would be pretty unreasonable.
But let’s get it a bit closer to what is happening. You actually post rules at the door of the house. They say not only are you allowed to trash talk the house, but there is an appointed 3rd party who’s job it is to decide if you broke the rules before any punitive action is taken. But then once inside you ignore your own rules and the appointed 3rd party’s rulling.
And one more step to get closer to the real case. The person wasn’t even trash talking your house. They were actually trash talking a different house on the other side of the neighborhood. One they actually lived closer to than you. And one that nearly the whole neighborhood says is in the wrong.
Now you are closer to what is happening.
And I know a serious answer probably wasn’t needed here, but on the off chance, I wanted to support serious discussion on opposing opinions.