Britain’s four-time Olympic gold medallist Sir Mo Farah has criticised US President Donald Trump for imposing an order that leaves him unsure whether he can return to the United States.
Farah, 33, was born in Somalia but has lived in Oregon for the past six years.
Farah has said Trump’s decision to ban Muslims from several countries from travelling to America, is “ignorant and prejudiced” – and saying he will have to tell his kids that he might not be able to come home to the US from his training camp in Ethiopia.
Farah said he believed Trump’s policy “comes from a place of ignorance and prejudice” and his story is “an example of what can happen when you follow polices of compassion and understanding, not hate and isolation”.
The sweeping new immigration ban now prevents hundreds of thousands of Britons from visiting America if they are also dual nationals of Syria, Iraq, Iran, Sudan, Libya, Somalia or Yemen.
Sir Mo holds UK citizenship after he was born in Somalia and moved to Britain at the age of eight.
He does not hold a Somali passport, but sources close to the athlete said it was still unclear if he could return home to his family in Portland, Oregon, after he finishes training in Ethiopia.
