Somali referee Artan barred from entering US

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	Somali referee Artan barred from entering US (bbc.co.uk)
	18 points by petepete 50 days ago

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spacedcowboy 50 days ago

F365 covering it as well [1]. They're a lttle more blunt - basically "American immigration is racist as fuck".

1: https://www.football365.com/news/nobody-surprised-as-us-deny...

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petepete 50 days ago

They certainly pull no punches.

If this is happening to award winning match officials, it doesn't bode well for the ordinary fans.

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adrian_b 50 days ago

Obviously, as you assume, for ordinary fans it has already been much worse:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx212p8r28eo

Organizing any international events in USA is a huge, unforgivable mistake, when it is well known that already for a long time USA has been a country hostile to foreign visitors.

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