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USA Today · Jan 29, 2017

Somalia-born runner Mo Farah is troubled by Trump policy

(Photo: Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports, Kirby Lee-USA TODAY Sports)LONDON - Four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah has criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s immigration policy, saying Sunday the temporary travel ban “seems to have made me an alien” and leaves him unsure whether he can return to his U.S. home.

Farah is a British citizen who was born in Somalia, one of seven predominantly Muslim nations subject to the executive order signed by Trump that currently bars entry to the United States.

Farah currently is training in Ethiopia. His wife, Tania, and four children are in Portland, Oregon, where the Farah family has lived for the last six years.

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