Omar Artan, the 34-year-old Somali referee who was denied entry to the U.S. for the World Cup, was welcomed in Mogadishu by crowds of supporters on Wednesday. On Saturday, Artan was refused entry to the U.S. after arriving in Miami, despite the fact that he arrived with a valid U.S. visa and had been invited to officiate at the World Cup. Instead, border officials questioned Artan for 11…

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    The government is choosing to no longer respect the documents they themselves issued, unless a court forces them to on a case by case basis. Even that is becoming ignorable because of cowardly judges refusing to institute actual contempt charges for officials from ICE or DHS.