A British-Gambian Ph.D. student at Cornell University who had faced possible deportation after participating in pro-Palestinian protests said on Monday that he had left the United States.aj-christmaspg

The student, Momodou Taal, who had been suspended by the university at least twice, including for participating in what it said was an unruly protest, is one of at least nine international students who the Trump administration has sought to remove from the country because of activities it calls antisemitic.

Mr. Taalaj-christmaspg had not been detained, unlike some of the other students, and had filed a suit attempting to block the legal proceedings against him.

In a statement on the social media platform X, Mr. Taal indicated that he had left the country. “I took the decision to leave the United States, free and with my head held high,” Mr. Taal wrote. He said that federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel had come to his home and revoked his visa. The agency referred a request for comment to the Department of Homeland Security.

“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,” he said in the statement. He warned that others were also at risk, and renewed his support for Palestinians.

pgjoia777ImageMr. Taal said that federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement personnel had come to his home and revoked his visa.Credit...Momodou Taal

Mr. Taal had been one of the leaders of a tent protest on the campus lawn at Cornell, in Ithaca, N.Y., in which students urged the university to divest its holdings in companies that they said supported Israel’s military campaign against Hamas militants in Gaza. On Oct. 7, 2023,66jogo the day that Hamas attacked Israel and set off the war, he wrote online, “Glory to the Resistance.”

After returning to office in January, President Trump signed an executive order saying that the United States would use “all available and appropriate legal tools” to “remove” aliens who engage in “unlawful antisemitic harassment and violence.”

The plaintiffs — who include Wendy Davis, a former Democratic state senator, along with a Biden campaign staff member and the bus driver — also testified, saying that the rolling road protest had been frightening and intimidating.

His lawyers admitted that he had carried out the shooting, but they said he was so unwell at the time that he could not know that what he was doing was wrong.

Last month, ICE personnel detained Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate student. They have also sought others, including Yunseo Chung, a legal permanent resident who moved to the United States from South Korea when she was 7.

Officials in the Trump administration have argued in several cases that a “visa is a privilege, not a right.” Civil rights advocates have called the deportation effort one of the biggest assaults on free speech in the United States in decades.

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed in a statement that Mr. Taal had left the country and said, “It is a privilege to be granted a visa to live and study in the United States of America. When you advocate for violence and terrorism, that privilege should be revoked.”

Mr. Taal, who holds joint British and Gambian citizenship, was in the United States on a student visa. He had been working toward a Ph.D. in Africana studies.