Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka says he will cut his
green card and leave the United States if Donald
Trump wins the presidential election, according to
a report by The Guardian.
The report said Soyinka, a scholar-in-residence at
New York University’s Institute of American
Affairs, disclosed the plan in a speech to Oxford
students.
He was quoted as saying, “If in the unlikely event
he does win, the first thing he’ll do is to say
[that] all green-card holders must reapply to
come back into the US. Well, I’m not waiting for
that.
“The moment they announce his victory, I will cut
my green card myself and start packing up.”
The Nobel laureate also criticised Brexit, warning
that there is a rise of “ultranationalism” and
calling on young people to resist oppression.
His comments come less than three weeks after
70 Nobel laureates backed Democratic
Presidential candidate Hillary Clinton.
On Monday, about 370 economists and eight
Nobel laureates denounced Trump, accusing him
of promoting conspiracy theories, among other
things.
Regardless, Clinton has seen her lead in poll slip
after the FBI announced that it was reopening her
email probe.
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