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US detains 60 Iranian Americans at Canadian border
5 January 2020 20:52 GMT
The United States detained 60 Iranian Americans at the US-Canadian border in the state of Washington.
A source at the Customs and Border Control agency reported that the Department of Homeland Security had issued a national order to "report" and detain anyone with Iranian heritage entering the country who is deemed potentially suspicious, according to the Council on American-Islamic Relations.
"These reports are extremely troubling and potentially constitute illegal detentions of United States citizens," Masih Fouladi, executive director of CAIR-Washington, said in a statement.
Washington Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal said in a tweet that she was "deeply disturbed" by the reports of these detentions.