US to deport hundreds of Iranians after deal with Tehran, Iranian official says [View all]
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Source: Reuters
(Reuters) -The United States is planning to deport some 400 Iranians, most of whom entered the country illegally, as part of U.S. President Donald Trump's broader crackdown on immigration, a senior Iranian official said on Tuesday.
"In the first step, they decided to deport 120 Iranians who entered the U.S. illegally, most of whom through Mexico," the Iranian foreign ministry's director general for parliament affairs, Hossein Noushabadi, told the semi-official Tasnim news agency.
The deportation, an uncommon instance of cooperation between the two countries, came after months of talks, according to the New York Times, which first reported the move.
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Noushabadi said the U.S. was "planning to deport around 400 Iranians, most of whom entered the country illegally, in line with the new anti-immigrant approach of the U.S. government."
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You mean those who sought asylum.
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