Momodou Taal tells MEE's Big Picture Podcast he went into hiding after immigration officers tried to deport him over pro-Palestine activism at Cornell

A senior official with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security claimed, without evidence, that the student was a "terrorist sympathizer."

This is only a piece of recent deportations lodged by the administration, as 30,000 were sent to a U.S. naval base in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba at the end of January, and over 13,000 were deported to Mexico during Trump's second term so far.