Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

kstinfo t1_j749nyl wrote

Reply to comment by Kimeako in Taliban arrests Afghan professor who backed girls education by CommanderMcBragg

Host families. We do it for students.

1

_ManMadeGod_ t1_j74u8cu wrote

I have to infer that the number of people trying to escape countries such as Afghanistan heavily outnumber host families.

4

kstinfo t1_j75gyyc wrote

In answer to your comment and the one below. History is replete with episodes of large numbers of persons leaving their native lands for better opportunities. In most cases communities in the new land helped their brethren get a start - Jews, Irish, Italians, Poles, etc.

This is from the NY state website:

There are approximately 7,500 Afghans now living in New York State, but that figure is expected to grow significantly as humanitarian evacuees, Special Immigrant Visa recipients and refugees arrive.

To the comment below - I don't expect women in, say Iran, have bank accounts. They're not allowed to work. In the instances cited above migrants arrived in the US with not much more than what was on their backs.

Aside: The Washington Post claims the Irish-American population is seven times greater than Ireland.

3