KartikayDec 16, 2022

Hi everyone! I guess we're doing this social media thing from scratch? OK, here it goes:
I'm a reporter @ProPublica writing about worker safety & migration. Sometimes I'll dabble outside this universe. I'm looking forward to figuring out how this platform works. If you have any pointers, I'm all ears.

Here's my first story at ProPublica published in mid-November about how the U.S. refugee resettlement system failed an Afghan family in rural Missouri:

https://www.propublica.org/article/missouri-afghan-refugees-rezwan-kohistani-oronogo

The Afghan Teen Who Survived the Taliban but Not U.S. Resettlement

When Kabul fell, Biden promised to rescue Afghan allies. For 14-year-old Rezwan Kohistani and his family, that meant being sent to a remote Missouri town where no other Afghans lived. “We’d been left alone,” said Rezwan’s father.

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Show threadWilliam B. Turner
@kartikay @ProPublica. I haven't heard anything lately, but apparently Oklahoma got a number of Afghan refugees and I have no idea how they have fared. I happen to live in the district of Oklahoma City that has successfully absorbed a large number of Vietnamese refugees, starting in the late 1970s. Putting Afghan refugees in the rural part of any former slave state, including Oklahoma, looks really foolish. Thanks for your work.
Dec 16, 2022 at 10:31pmWeb