U.S. to deport hundreds of Iranians who were held on immigration charges, Tehran says

The United States was set to deport hundreds of Iranian nationals, a senior official in Tehran said Tuesday, as the Trump administration takes new steps in its immigration crackdown. U.S. authorities had “planned to deport about 400 Iranians currently living in the United States, most of whom entered illegally,” the Iranian foreign ministry’s director general for parliamentary affairs, Hossein Noushabadi, told the semiofficial Tasnim