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On today’s episode of The Confluence: We speak with an Afghan journalist who fled the country after the U.S. withdrew its military presence, and has spent the last year in Pittsburgh; as Allegheny County is contracting with consultants at the National Commission on Correctional Health Care to review fatalities at the county jail, we ask a researcher what might come of the review; and author David Maraniss has a new biography of Jim Thorpe, one of America’s greatest athletes, who grew up at the Indian Industrial School in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Today’s guests include: Zubair Babakarkhail, Afghan-born journalist and interpreter; Robin Mejia, director of the Statistics and Human Rights Program at Carnegie Mellon University.
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Pittsburgh is now home to about 680 Afghans who were evacuated amid the U.S. troop withdrawal last summer. For one family now residing locally, their escape brings safety but also economic and emotional adversity.
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More than 8,500 Afghan evacuees have touched down in Philadelphia, according to city officials. But the journey to Philadelphia International Airport is just the first step.
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On today’s program: The state Department of Health announced a mask order for people in schools and child care facilities that will take effect next Tuesday; Jewish Family and Community Services is helping Afghan refugees get settled in their new home; and we answer the question, why do songs get stuck in our heads?
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Reservists and aircraft from the 911th Airlift Wing at the Pittsburgh Air Reserve Station in Moon have joined the operation to airlift thousands of refugees and others who are awaiting evacuation from the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan.
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A local resettlement agency says support groups will likely be key to addressing the needs of refugees fleeing from Afghanistan to Pittsburgh.
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On today’s program: A debrief about the Pittsburgh Public School board’s decision to approve the delay of the start of the school year; and a conversation with a Pitt professor who is organizing students and volunteers to help Afghan residents get the paperwork they need to apply for special visas in the U.S.
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Pittsburgh has been designated as a resettlement city for people fleeing Afghanistan after the recent fall of the country’s U.S.-backed government. But although the Biden administration recently expanded refugee admissions to include more Afghan residents who worked for the U.S., some say the administration needs to move faster.
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Pittsburgh has been designated to serve as a resettlement site for those fleeing Afghanistan as the U.S. withdraws from the country.
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Mastoorah Fazly and her husband, Nooruloq, left Afghanistan for the U.S. in 2016. Like many Afghani refugees, they held Special Immigrant Visas because…