World Cup referee spokesperson: 'He was denied the American dream because of where he was born'

Hussein Hassan, the official spokesperson of Omar Artan, the FIFA official who was denied entry into the U.S. for the World Cup, says that "Omar is the American dream. And he was denied the opportunity to make it in America just because of the geographical location he was born."

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