Pastor Ara Torosian received a distressed phone call from two Iranian members of his Farsi-speaking church on Tuesday — US federal immigration officers were at their Los Angeles home to arrest them.
It was the second such call he received this week.
On Monday, an Iranian couple with a 3-year-old was detained at a routine immigration appointment, Torosian said.
Both families were recently arrived asylum seekers, who had entered the United States at the US-Mexico border after making an appointment, he said.
Torosian said when he arrived at the couples home on Tuesday he saw an army of federal law enforcement officers and began filming on his cell phone as officers stopped him from getting close to his church members.
The arrests came after US military bombers carried out strikes against three Iranian nuclear facilities in the early hours of Sunday morning local time.
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