UPDATE: Mo Farah Likely Banned From U.S. For 90 Days Under Trump Order
UPDATE: Mo Farah Likely Banned From U.S. For 90 Days Under Trump Order
Mo Farah Is Likely Banned From Entering The United States, Where He Lives
​UPDATE: ​Parts of the order have been stayed by a federal judge in Brooklyn, making it unclear if any parts of the ban can be enforced at all under the stay. And the ​New York Times ​writes that "It remains unclear whether Mr. Farah would be allowed into the United States to train or compete."
The original story appears below.
U.S.-based British distance runner Mo Farah will likely by affected by an executive order that President Donald Trump signed earlier this week barring citizens of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, and Yemen from entering the United States for the next 90 days. Trump is it calling an effort to defend the United States from "radical Islamic terrorism." The order also mandated that Christian refugees be given priority over Muslim ones. Farah, a four-time Olympic gold medalist, is a Muslim.
According to what the State Department told ​Wall Street Journal ​reporters tonight, the ban "also applies to people who originally hail from those countries but are traveling on a passport issued by any other nation, the official said. That means Iraqis seeking to enter the U.S. on a British passport, for instance, will be barred, according to a U.S. official."​
Mo Farah is British and has a British passport, but he was born in Somalia. Farah lives and trains in Portland, Oregon with the Nike Oregon Project, but he is training in Ethiopia right now. Under what State officials told the WSJ, Farah is very likely banned from entering the United States for the next 90 days.
British tabloids are writing that Farah "would appear to" and "could" be barred from returning to the U.S., though Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted that Farah was "banned." British MP Nadhim Zahawi was born in Iraq and tweeted that he was "banned from the USA based on my country of birth."
We've reached out to Farah's representatives for comment, and will update this post when possible.
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The original story appears below.
U.S.-based British distance runner Mo Farah will likely by affected by an executive order that President Donald Trump signed earlier this week barring citizens of Iraq, Iran, Syria, Sudan, Somalia, Libya, and Yemen from entering the United States for the next 90 days. Trump is it calling an effort to defend the United States from "radical Islamic terrorism." The order also mandated that Christian refugees be given priority over Muslim ones. Farah, a four-time Olympic gold medalist, is a Muslim.
According to what the State Department told ​Wall Street Journal ​reporters tonight, the ban "also applies to people who originally hail from those countries but are traveling on a passport issued by any other nation, the official said. That means Iraqis seeking to enter the U.S. on a British passport, for instance, will be barred, according to a U.S. official."​
Mo Farah is British and has a British passport, but he was born in Somalia. Farah lives and trains in Portland, Oregon with the Nike Oregon Project, but he is training in Ethiopia right now. Under what State officials told the WSJ, Farah is very likely banned from entering the United States for the next 90 days.
British tabloids are writing that Farah "would appear to" and "could" be barred from returning to the U.S., though Labor Party leader Jeremy Corbyn tweeted that Farah was "banned." British MP Nadhim Zahawi was born in Iraq and tweeted that he was "banned from the USA based on my country of birth."
We've reached out to Farah's representatives for comment, and will update this post when possible.