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UN urges US to keep doors open to asylum seekers
Business Standard
|November 29, 2025
United Nations (UN) agencies on Friday appealed to Washington to continue allowing asylum seekers access to the country and to be given due process after President Donald Trump vowed to freeze migration from “Third World” countries following an attack near the White House.
The comments mark a further escalation of migration measures Trump has ordered since the shooting on Wednesday that investigators say was carried out by an Afghan national who entered US in 2021.
This story is from the November 29, 2025 edition of Business Standard.
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