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Visitors from 50 countries are subject to the bond payments which were imposed by the Trump administration last year as part of a crackdown on immigration.
Five of those countries have teams participating in the World Cup, all of them from Africa, Algeria, Cabo Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal, and Tunisia.
Now, visitors with verified World Cup tickets will be allowed to skip those bond payments so long as they opt in to the FIFA Pass system unveiled by the White House last fall.
Several participating countries are
...level bands, including Haiti, Iran, and Senegal, though the White House has committed to making exceptions for players, coaches, and staff.
Becky Sullivan, NPR News, Washington.
Visitors from 50 countries are subject to the bond payments, which were imposed by the Trump administration last year as part of a crackdown on immigration.
Five of those countries have teams participating in the World Cup, all of them from Africa, Algeria, Cabo Verde, Côte d'Ivoire, Senegal and Tunisia.
Now, visitors with verified World Cup tickets will be allowed to skip those bond payments so long as they opt in to the FIFA Pass system unveiled by the White House last fall.
Several participating countries are subject to partial or total travel bans, including Haiti, Iran, and Senegal, though the White House has committed to making exceptions for players, coaches, and staff.
Becky Sullivan, NPR News, Washington.
Back in 2013, Jason Collins stunned the sports world when he published a cover story in Sports Illustrated with the headline, I'm a 34-year-old NBA center.
In an interview with ABC recorded just hours after the announcement, Collins said he'd fought his sexuality for years before embracing it.
There was an outpouring of support afterward, even a phone call from President Barack Obama who told Collins he was proud of him.
Collins played 13 seasons in the NBA, only one of them after he came out.
In the decade plus since then, openly gay athletes remain extremely rare in men's professional sports.
Last year, Collins married his longtime partner.
Then, just months later, he was diagnosed with glioblastoma, a fast-moving form of brain cancer.