But Shahid Khan, the owner of the Jacksonville Jaguars, made clear Saturday that he was opposed to the ban and said he was heartened on Friday when a federal judge in Seattle temporarily blocked the president’s immigration order.
“The bedrock of this country are immigration and really a great separation between church and state,” Khan, 66, said here in Houston, the site of Sunday’s Super Bowl.
“Even for the country, it’s not good,” he added, explaining that he thought the order could deny entry to some of “the tens of thousands of people who can contribute to the making of America.”
The only immigrant and the only Muslim owner of an NFL team, Khan came to the United States from Pakistan in 1967, earned a degree in engineering and went on to own Flex-N-Gate, a multibillion-dollar car parts business. He became a United States citizen decades ago.
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