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Darian Vaziri, 21, said he and his family arrived at the border around 8 p.m. Saturday and were also placed under further scrutiny. He said his parents were born in Tehran, and the agents asked them about where they went to school, their family members, any military background and when they were last in Iran.

Mr. Vaziri said his parents, who live in Los Angeles, had been in the United States for four decades. They had come up to Seattle to visit family and had taken a day trip to Vancouver.

“My parents have been here for 40 years, legally, and they are still not being treated normally like everyone else,” Mr. Vaziri said.

Mr. Vaziri shared a photo of a young child who was sleeping on a bench late at night as families waited. He said one group of travelers with two young children arrived for extra scrutiny after midnight, just before he and his family were allowed to leave.

Matt Adams, the legal director for the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, a nonprofit legal services group in Seattle involved in efforts to help people at the port of entry on Sunday, said United States citizens and permanent residents who were born in Iran or were traveling with people born in Iran were still being singled out for questioning on Sunday, but were being processed much more quickly than the night before.

Mr. Adams said that, beyond the detainment, he worried that the government might use these interrogations as tools to second-guess the immigration status of people who were lawfully in the country.

“It’s a fishing expedition,” he said. “They are going after anyone with Iranian heritage.”

Zolan Kanno-Youngs reported from Washington, Mike Baker from Seattle and Mariel Padilla from New York. Danielle Ivory contributed reporting from New York.