Several United States national team players have already spoken out about Donald Trump’s executive order denying entry to anyone from seven Muslim-majority countries, along with an outright ban on all Syrian refugees, at least for the next four months. The immediate effect of the EO has been to tear families apart while denying relief to people fleeing from war.
The order has already been questioned by many in the sports world, including MNT captain Michael Bradley, who said he was “sad and embarrassed” by the order and called Trump’s campaign language “xenophobic, misogynist, and narcissistic rhetoric.