Survey Finds Foreign Students Aren’t Applying to American Colleges
http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/sur ... es-n738411
http://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/sur ... es-n738411
Full text of the executive order:
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential ... -outbreak/
From personal experience, I know that this will have a significant negative impact on universities (especially those like WashU and SLU that have a strong medical arm) as well as tech and biotech.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential ... -outbreak/
From personal experience, I know that this will have a significant negative impact on universities (especially those like WashU and SLU that have a strong medical arm) as well as tech and biotech.
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Incredibly short sighted. Cutting the legs out from under one the nations most valuable exports.
hundreds if not thousands of workers will be gone:
Deportation from America of many of the world’s most talented people
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartande ... 40a06c3ce5
Deportation from America of many of the world’s most talented people
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stuartande ... 40a06c3ce5
I am likely to be affected by this and am working with my employer's legal counsel to prepare for a potential transfer to Europe ☹
I was always under the impression that we, as a country, would be falling behind without the talent the H-1B brings.
Nextstl - St. Louis Should Actively Recruit Hong Kong Migrants
https://nextstl.com/2021/01/st-louis-sh ... -migrants/
https://nextstl.com/2021/01/st-louis-sh ... -migrants/
Nextstl - Immigrant Neighborhoods: The Backbone of St. Louis
https://nextstl.com/2021/01/immigrant-n ... -st-louis/
https://nextstl.com/2021/01/immigrant-n ... -st-louis/
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Good stuff on NextSTL lately. I have enthusiasm for this latest push. As birth rates drop, the United States has the unique opportunity of being a top immigration and refugee destination. If we can stop squandering this with xenophobia we can solve or ease many of the structural problems created by an aging population.
Would like to see an incentive in the visa process to settle in shrinking cities that need the additional population boost.
Imagine if we were able to take advantage of the recent Syrian exodus. I mourn the businesses and restaurants that will never be.
Would like to see an incentive in the visa process to settle in shrinking cities that need the additional population boost.
Imagine if we were able to take advantage of the recent Syrian exodus. I mourn the businesses and restaurants that will never be.
I wonder if anyone has studied how the huge reduction in immigration after 1925 affected depopulation of cities and whether that was a major reason behind curtailing it.
Thankfully, public views on immigration are changing slowly but surely: https://www.pewresearch.org/politics/20 ... o-the-u-s/GoHarvOrGoHome wrote: ↑Jan 09, 2021Good stuff on NextSTL lately. I have enthusiasm for this latest push. As birth rates drop, the United States has the unique opportunity of being a top immigration and refugee destination. If we can stop squandering this with xenophobia we can solve or ease many of the structural problems created by an aging population.
Would like to see an incentive in the visa process to settle in shrinking cities that need the additional population boost.
Imagine if we were able to take advantage of the recent Syrian exodus. I mourn the businesses and restaurants that will never be.
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Probably not the best thread for this, but interesting opportunity for STL if we could make some room for these folks. Seems like NGA, Scott Airforce Base, etc. would be possibilities for possible employment.
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^I'd had similar thoughts myself. Not sure what we do to court their community, but I'd be down with an Afghani community. There is or was already a small immigrant group from Afghanistan: the family that opened Sameem and presumably whomsoever is behind the Afghan Market in Grand. (I recall the founder from Sameem was deported on a firearms violation of some kind. That saddened me, but I'm fairly sure he still has family here. Ate their takeout a moth or so back. Always a favorite. And the owner had hit it off rather well with my friend Ali. The two had a long and pleasant conversation about cooking rice.) Anyway . . . yeah, this seems like a good fit.
NGA might be tough. I think you have to be a US citizen and denounce any other citizenship you have. I knew someone trying to get a clearance once and he had to go thru a lot of hoops because he had dual citizenship which included getting rid of his other one.pattimagee wrote: ↑Jun 25, 2021Probably not the best thread for this, but interesting opportunity for STL if we could make some room for these folks. Seems like NGA, Scott Airforce Base, etc. would be possibilities for possible employment.
Might be easier once the new building is done and they have more unclass space. Although maybe they could get them in groundskeepers or something outside.
All that said the city should be doing all they can to get them here.
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Yeah, the main reason I mentioned NGA was because he stated those, "who worked for the US government before the official exit date of US troops 9/11" which I was assuming that work was in some form or capacity with our armed forces. So, maybe those had some sort of clearance, experience, etc...
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St. Louis should be throwing its hat in the ring for any and all immigrant groups coming to America.
I hope somebody in the city is working on this. But, before I get too excited on a hypothetical, is there any way rural, outstate Missouri (read: Jefferson City) can stop St. Louis from doing this?
I hope somebody in the city is working on this. But, before I get too excited on a hypothetical, is there any way rural, outstate Missouri (read: Jefferson City) can stop St. Louis from doing this?
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Outright stop? I don't think so. But they could find creative ways to restrict any taxpayer money from being used on these initiatives.
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^^Agree with above that I don't think Jeff City can or even would attempt to stop something like this. The Afghani populace that would be coming over here are people who chose to cooperate with us in the warzone and proactive work with US Armed Forces to fight the Taliban & Al Qaeda. Their proactive relocation is a very big issue for US veterans who served with them. Veterans vote.
I'm remembering the weeks that followed the towers coming down... I remember attending an event at I believe Clayton High School where an Afghani expatriate was talking about current events. Now, my memories are rusty here, but IIRC this person was a serious pre-Taliban Afghani national leader, perhaps even an exiled President. He was living in STL and running a restaurant in Clayton, something low profile that provided him a living. He presented himself publicly after that day as a counter-voice for the Afghani people opposed to the Taliban & Al Qaeda. I believe I heard news of his death a few years ago, and for the life of me I cannot recall his name. That all said, perhaps there's more of a lure to STL for this Afghani population than we realize. For those with influence in such decisions, perhaps they'd remember this man, his story, how he came to STL, and better sell the region as a home for this expatriate population of US allies.
I'm remembering the weeks that followed the towers coming down... I remember attending an event at I believe Clayton High School where an Afghani expatriate was talking about current events. Now, my memories are rusty here, but IIRC this person was a serious pre-Taliban Afghani national leader, perhaps even an exiled President. He was living in STL and running a restaurant in Clayton, something low profile that provided him a living. He presented himself publicly after that day as a counter-voice for the Afghani people opposed to the Taliban & Al Qaeda. I believe I heard news of his death a few years ago, and for the life of me I cannot recall his name. That all said, perhaps there's more of a lure to STL for this Afghani population than we realize. For those with influence in such decisions, perhaps they'd remember this man, his story, how he came to STL, and better sell the region as a home for this expatriate population of US allies.
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/2022 ... heartbreak
BBC story on the Bosnian community in St Louis.
BBC story on the Bosnian community in St Louis.
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https://news.stlpublicradio.org/2022-01 ... n-refugees
Posted this in the refugees thread, but I think it belongs here too.
This is potentially huge news that I don't think is being talked about enough. This could he a huge opportunity for St. Louis.
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Posted this in the refugees thread, but I think it belongs here too.
This is potentially huge news that I don't think is being talked about enough. This could he a huge opportunity for St. Louis.
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St Louis: The US city transformed by heartbreak
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220117-st-louis-the-us-city-transformed-by-heartbreak
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220117-st-louis-the-us-city-transformed-by-heartbreak
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Here's an interesting one from BBC Travel that popped up on Reddit: St. Louis: US city transformed by heartbreak. Don't let the title fool you, it's a story on Bosnian immigration. So there's plenty of heartbreak there, but it's overseas heartbreak, and not really local. (For once.)
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It ignores the reality of the last 5 years. Little Bosnia doesn’t exist anymore. Following a shooting of a store clerk and the hammer attack murder Bosnians abandoned bevo
An article in the BBC about the revitalization of the Bevo Mill area by the Bosnian population: https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220117-st-louis-the-us-city-transformed-by-heartbreak
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STL may want to prepare for a second wave of Bosnians coming to the city. Unfortunately tensions are getting high in that region again.
Why there's fear that the Bosnian War could reignite
Why there's fear that the Bosnian War could reignite