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Major League Soccer struggles with free speech as fans protest Trump's immigration policies

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Americans' discontent over the Trump administration's immigration policies is spilling into professional sports, forcing teams to walk a fine line between allowing fan speech and enforcing league rules. Last week, Bruce Martin, an L.A. Galaxy fan and professional photographer, was indefinitely banned from L.A. Galaxy games and Dignity Health Sports Park—the Galaxy's stadium—for using game day credentials given to him by the team to bring in an unapproved banner during a July 4 match. The banner read "AEG Loves Immigrant Dollars But Not Immigrants." (Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG) owns the...

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