{"id":29315,"date":"2025-11-28T15:04:24","date_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=29315"},"modified":"2025-11-28T15:04:24","modified_gmt":"2025-11-28T15:04:24","slug":"un-urges-trump-to-keep-doors-open-to-asylum-seekers-after-dc-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=29315","title":{"rendered":"UN urges Trump to keep doors open to asylum seekers after DC attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>UN agencies on Friday appealed to Washington to continue allowing asylum seekers access to the United States and to ensure they receive due process, after President Donald Trump vowed to freeze migration from \u201cThird World\u201d countries following an attack near the White House.<\/p>\n<p>The comments mark a further escalation in migration measures Trump has ordered since Wednesday\u2019s shooting, which investigators say was carried out by an Afghan national who entered the United States in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Asked to respond to Trump\u2019s remarks, UN human rights office spokesperson Jeremy Laurence told a Geneva press briefing: \u201cThey are entitled to protection under international law, and that should be given due process.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read More: Pakistani immigration to US hits pause, but spared Trump green card wrath<\/p>\n<p>UN refugee agency spokesperson Eujin Byun echoed those remarks. \u201cWhen people who need protection arrive in their territory, they have to have a due process of asylum. And then they have to have access to territory,\u201d she said, adding that the overwhelming majority of refugees are law-abiding members of host communities.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo we really want to appeal at this point to the states who are hosting refugees and asylum seekers,\u201d she said.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UN agencies on Friday appealed to Washington to continue allowing asylum seekers access to the United States and to ensure they receive due process, after President Donald Trump vowed to freeze migration from \u201cThird World\u201d countries following an attack near the White House. The comments mark a further escalation in migration measures Trump has ordered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29315","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29315\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}