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SvennoJ on 22 March 2025
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University student suing Trump administration faces deportation

A Cornell University research student suing the Trump administration to stop deportations of pro-Palestinian foreign students has been ordered to surrender to immigration authorities for deportation.

The Guardian news reports that Momodou Taal, a dual citizen of the UK and The Gambia, first became aware he was being targeted for deportation when unidentified law enforcement officers came to his home seeking to detain him.

The visit took place just days after the lawsuit was filed.

In a statement published to social media, Taal’s lawyer, Eric Lee, said the government’s actions were unconstitutional.

“We are outraged, and every American should be too. We urge the population to defend the right to freedom of speech against the urgent threat of dictatorship by exercising that right actively and vigorously,” he said.


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On the topic of libraries

U.S. limits Canadian access to iconic Stanstead, Que., border-straddling library

https://apnews.com/article/canada-america-library-vermont-quebec-7c4851c705d18e0cc891c3ce085e15e4

For more than 100 years, people in Stanstead, Quebec have been able to walk into Derby Line, Vermont to enter the border-straddling Haskell Free Library and Opera House – no passport required.

But municipal and library officials said on Friday that U.S. authorities have unilaterally decided to end the century-old unwritten agreement. Coming at a time of heightened tensions between the two countries, the decision is prompting an outpouring of emotion in communities on both sides of the border, which in places has been marked simply by flower pots.


Last edited by SvennoJ - on 22 March 2025