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Pramila Jayapal

Pramila Jayapal, D-Seattle, made the remarks after a meeting with Adele Fasano, the director of field operations for the Seattle Field Office of Customs and Border Protection, and Fasano’s chief of staff, as well as US Rep. Suzan DelBene and representatives from the offices of US Rep. Kim Schrier and Sen. Maria Cantwell.

Hawzah News Agency - (Washington - US) - An American Congresswoman says US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has admitted that the agency made “enormous mistakes in protocol” when its officers questioned Iranians and Iranian-Americans — some for as long as 12 hours — at the US-Canada border last month.

Pramila Jayapal, D-Seattle, made the remarks after a meeting with Adele Fasano, the director of field operations for the Seattle Field Office of Customs and Border Protection, and Fasano’s chief of staff, as well as US Rep. Suzan DelBene and representatives from the offices of US Rep. Kim Schrier and Sen. Maria Cantwell.

Jayapal said Fasano admitted that the CBP’s denial of a directive to question and hold Iranian and other foreign-born people from the Middle East were not true.

 “That there were enormous protocols and mistakes made, and that there was guidance given — whether you call it guidance or not — but certainly directives given that translated into the Blaine CBP holding people for literally being born in a particular country,” Jayapal said.

The Democratic representative said Fasano was calling for an investigation.

The Seattle times says on Jan. 30, Blaine immigration lawyer Len Saunders said he obtained a photocopied memo from the CBP’s Seattle Field Office on a directive for lengthy stops and questioning of Iranian, Lebanese and Palestinian nationals who were crossing into the US from Canada between Jan. 4 and 5.

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