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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@kartikay @ProPublica Was it the resettlement system, or the people of Missouri that didn't help him feel welcome?
@kartikay @ProPublica we can't resettle people without affordable places to put them. Sometimes the rural communities have the right price points and volunteers the big cities don't.