“I almost died,” said one Queens resident who forced her way out of a basement apartment. Now she is eligible for help.
In this lesson, students will learn about the evolving crisis at the U.S. border. Then, they will debate how the Biden administration has handled the crisis and what the U.S. should do next.
And because that’s what they hear so often — the sounds of Sierra Leone, Cameroon, Haiti, Jamaica — these residents decided to do something extraordinary for the migrants who take such good care of them, who treat their senior status with an honor and value that our youth-worshipping, throwaway culture too often neglects.
Leaders of several refugee resettlement organizations say money and resources have been flooding in from across the country to assist Afghan evacuees who helped American forces during the two-decade war.
“What’s happening in Brooks County is so extreme that you have to see it to really get your mind around it.”
The majority of states have agreed to accept refugees fleeing Afghanistan, with only two states ? South Dakota and Wyoming ? so far refusing to do so.
Roughly a quarter of the more than 100,000 Afghans evacuated from Kabul in August have already arrived at American military bases for further processing, awaiting their opportunity to start a new life in the US. But amid a nationwide affordable housing crisis, finding them a place to call home is proving a major obstacle.
On Sept. 11, 2001, Said Noor was growing up in a mountain village in Khost, a southeastern province of Afghanistan along the border with Pakistan. He lived in an agricultural valley full of apple orchards and groves of peach trees.
At 8:46 a.m. on Sept. 11, 2001, a plane crashed into the North Tower. All 79 people on the 107th floor died, including 72 staff members.
On a rainy day during her sophomore year of high school, as Aissata Ba studied in the library, a photo popped into her phone.
