Attorneys for a Cornell graduate student whose student visa was recently revoked and has been targeted for deportation by the Trump administration said the case will be a test to determine whether the US government can target people for expressing views that are critical of the government.

Momodou Taal avoided having his student visa terminated by Cornell in the fall, but now, ICE wants him to surrender.

A Columbia University junior and a Cornell University grad student appear to be dodging immigration agents while the students’ lawyers ask federal judges to block the Trump administration from deporting them for what they say is retaliation for their pro-Palestinian activism.