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.

ProPublica
Show threadWilliam B. Turner
@kartikay @ProPublica. My apologies. I wrote too soon. This is not an issue I have kept up with, but a web search produced this article. Governor Stitt is a moron who just won reelection easily, I fear: https://oklahomawatch.org/2022/08/23/why-some-afghan-refugees-in-oklahoma-live-in-squalor/
Why Some Afghan Refugees in Oklahoma Live In Squalor

The nonprofit responsible for the resettlement of refugees across the state agreed to the governor’s request to resettle over 1,800 Afghans in Oklahoma last August, knowing the options available to house them were limited. Now some families live in poverty and filth.

Oklahoma Watch
Dec 16, 2022 at 10:43pmWeb