{"id":37773,"date":"2025-04-02T21:14:21","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:14:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/zambia-remove-us-based-players-due-to-trump-immigration-policy-fears\/"},"modified":"2025-04-02T21:14:21","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T21:14:21","slug":"zambia-remove-us-based-players-due-to-trump-immigration-policy-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/zambia-remove-us-based-players-due-to-trump-immigration-policy-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Zambia remove US-based players due to Trump immigration policy fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Orlando Pride\u2019s Barbra Banda among removals<\/li>\n<li>Immigration crackdowns led to decision<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Zambia women\u2019s national team have decided to remove their four US-based players from their squad for upcoming games due to concerns about the Trump administration\u2019s immigration policy, the country\u2019s football federation announced on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The policies have created significant uncertainty for foreigners looking to leave or re-enter the United States after time abroad. In March, a French scientist was detained and his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/19\/trump-musk-french-scientist-detained\">phone was searched<\/a> upon arriving in Houston for a conference.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/football\/2025\/apr\/02\/zambia-womens-soccer-team-trump-policies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orlando Pride\u2019s Barbra Banda among removals Immigration crackdowns led to decision The Zambia women\u2019s national team have decided to remove their four US-based players from their squad for upcoming games due to concerns about the Trump administration\u2019s immigration policy, the country\u2019s football federation announced on Wednesday. The policies have created significant uncertainty for foreigners looking &#8230; <a title=\"Zambia remove US-based players due to Trump immigration policy fears\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/02\/zambia-remove-us-based-players-due-to-trump-immigration-policy-fears\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Zambia remove US-based players due to Trump immigration policy fears\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37773","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}