U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers are reportedly questioning Iranians and Iranian Americans trying to enter the U.S. at the border in Surrey, Canada.
Mona Zabihian was on her way back to Washington after a Persian pop concert in Canada late Saturday night when she and four other Iranian Americans were pulled aside at the border. As their van slowed at the checkpoint, the U.S. citizens were asked a series of standard questions. Then they were given a slip and told to go inside, she said Sunday.“They wanted to know the names of all my immediate family members, their birth dates, their location and their occupation.
Reports that the agency had issued a national directive to border agents to detain Iranian-Americans and refuse their entry were untrue, he added. “Apparently there’s a room full of people,” said Costello, after speaking Sunday with a man who said he had spent several hours in a waiting room at the border in Surrey, near Vancouver. “A person came and was asked where he was born. He said Iran, and so he was led into this room.”
Friel, the CBP spokesman, said in his statement that the agency does not discriminate based on religion, race, ethnicity or sexual orientation. He said that the agency was “operating with an enhanced posture” at ports of entry to safeguard national security while protecting civil rights and liberties.
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