The emails reveal 277 people of Iranian heritage were referred for secondary vetting this past January between B.C. and Washington state — more than the 60 originally estimated.

New Yorkers can now once again enroll and re-enroll in Global Entry and other federal travel programs that allow vetted travelers to avoid long security lines at airports and the U.S. border.

The administration's action came in response to New York's passage last June of a so-called Green Light law allowing illegal immigrants to apply for driver's licenses.

Shahab Dehghani, who attends Northeastern University, and Reihana Emami Arandi, who had been set to start classes at Harvard University, filed separate complaints with the agency's civil rights office.

Washington state Governor Jay Inslee issued a statement Monday saying U.S. border officials' denial they were detaining Iranian-born people was "not credible."

The sweeping raids in Mississippi also drew backlash in the form of protests, marches and sit-ins over the weekend.

Pardons are supposed to let a former offender move on. So why do they sometimes create more problems than they solve at the U.S. border?

U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials said Monday that 62 current and eight former Border Patrol employees are under internal investigation following revelations of a secret Facebook group that mocked lawmakers and migrants.

Last week, it was reported that dozens of children living in migrant detention centres did not have access to basic sanitary supplies such as soap and toothpaste.

Mark pleaded guilty to marijuana possession in 1982 at age 18. Thirty-seven years later, U.S. border officials confronted him about the arrest, banning him from the U.S. for life.