{"id":61186,"date":"2018-06-21T07:10:23","date_gmt":"2018-06-21T06:10:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=61186"},"modified":"2018-06-21T07:12:45","modified_gmt":"2018-06-21T06:12:45","slug":"thousands-mark-world-refugee-day-in-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/thousands-mark-world-refugee-day-in-new-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands mark World Refugee Day in New York"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Thousands of people took to the streets of New York on Wednesday to mark World Refugee Day and denounce U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy against undocumented migrants.<\/h2>\n<p>Protestors marched from Bryant Park to the United Nations\u2019 headquarters carrying placards that read \u201cRefugees welcome,\u201d \u201cNo child is illegal\u201d and \u201cKeep families together,\u201d creating a long queue along the road.<\/p>\n<p>The crowd also protested the Trump administration\u2019s practice of separating undocumented parents suspected of crossing the border illegally from their children.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Trump signed an executive order halting his administration&#8217;s implementation of the family separation policy.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s &#8220;zero tolerance&#8221; policy refers all apprehended undocumented adults for criminal prosecution &#8212; a break with past administrations that limited criminal referral for most adults who illegally crossed into the U.S. with their juvenile family members.<\/p>\n<p>Each year, June 20 is observed as World Refugee Day.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the United Nations announced that the world\u2019s forcibly displaced population rose by 2.9 million last year, with a record 68.5 million people forcibly displaced as a result of persecution, conflict or violence.<\/p>\n<!-- Error, Advert is not available at this time due to schedule\/geolocation restrictions! -->\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of people took to the streets of New York on Wednesday to mark World Refugee Day and denounce U.S. President Donald Trump\u2019s \u201czero tolerance\u201d policy against undocumented migrants.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":61187,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,63,118,14],"tags":[77263,4221,77996],"class_list":["post-61186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-hot","category-world","tag-donald-trump","tag-new-york","tag-world-refugee-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61186\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61187"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}