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Tell Congress: Stop Trump from detaining Iranian Americans
We’ve already seen Trump using CBP to try and ban Muslims from entering the country legally. Now he’s ramping up in a horrific way, detaining hundreds of Iranians at the US/Canada border last weekend. We have to take action now to make sure that Trump doesn’t illegally detain people of Iranian descent.
Why is this important?
“This is a bad time to be an Iranian.” That’s what a Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) officer said when they were asked why dozens of Iranians and American citizens of Iranian descent were being held returning to the U.S. at the Canadian border with Washington State on Saturday.
Sepehr Ebrahimzadeh was held and questioned for hours by CBP when returning from Canada to Seattle with his girlfriend after they spent a week out of town for the holidays.
Ebrahimzadeh said the experience made him fear that the United States would prepare for war on Iran by rounding up everyone of Iranian descent, just like the Japanese internment camps during World War II.