Customs and Border Protection denies reports of Iranian Americans being detained and refused entry to the US after social media posts claimed that Iranian Americans had been held at a port of entry in Washington at the Canadian border
In one post that was shared more than 24,000 times, activists claimed that CBP had been"ordered" to detain"all Iranians entering the country deemed potentially suspicious.""Social media posts that CBP is detaining Iranian-Americans and refusing their entry into the U.S. because of their country of origin are false. Reports that DHS/CBP has issued a related directive are also false," CBP press secretary Matt Leas said in a statement Sunday.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations posted a statement saying that the Washington state chapter was assisting"more than 60 Iranians and Iranian-Americans," who they claimed were"detained at length and questioned" at a crossing in Washington.Read MoreDemocratic Rep. Pramila Jayapal of Washington also posted on Twitter, saying she was"deeply disturbed" by reports, adding that directly affected people could email information about the reports to her office.
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