Anti-Israel protester Momodou Taal, a Cornell University international graduate student who sued the Trump administration after he

Momodou Taal, a dual citizen of Gambia and the U.K., was an international graduate student at Cornell University. (Bing Guan/Bloomberg/Getty)

Following the revocation of Taal’s student visa by authorities, the British-Gambian student submitted an emergency motion to halt any attempts at his detention or deportation. However, on Thursday, District Judge Elizabeth C. Coombe of the U.S. denied requests to temporarily pause his removal proceedings and the enforcement of the two executive orders.

Taal mentioned his intention to present a second briefing to the court “with the hope that I could stay out of detention” but admitted he “lost faith” that he “could walk the streets without being abducted.”

“This is of course not the outcome I had wanted going into this, but we are facing a government that has no respect for the judiciary or for the rule of the law,” he stated.

Taal, who has been an anti-Israel student activist since the Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas attacks, has praised the “resistance” against Israel several times on his X account. Despite being accepted on a student visa in 2022, Taal has also posted about his “hatred” for the U.S. and called for “the end of the US empire.”

Fox News’ Michael Dorgan and Jamie Joseph contributed to this report.