The backlash against Donald Trump's immigration crackdown
intensified today after it emerged that Olympic hero Sir Mo Farah could be
banned from returning to his home in the US.
The President yesterday signed an executive order preventing
refugees entering the US from seven Muslim majority countries for 90 days and
those from Syria indefinitely.
Sir Mo, who lives with his family in Oregon, is believed to be training
in Ethiopia at the moment and there are fears he could be cut-off from his wife
and daughters.
The sudden ban has triggered chaos at airports across the world as
travellers were caught out in transit.
One woman affected was Hamaseh Tayari, a UK resident with an
Iranian passport, who is stranded in Costa Rica after being denied boarding a
flight home to Glasgow because her return flight was due to stop-over in New
York.
Theresa May was forced to make a dramatic U-turn to condemn Mr Trump's
ban after she refused three times to criticise the move yesterday.
The Prime Minister's about-turn came after she faced mutiny from within
the Tory party and one of her MPs revealed the ban on entering the US applies
to him.
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