A surprising salve for New York's beleaguered cities: Refugees

An article in The New York Times about communities across Upstate New York that have seen an influx of refugees following long struggles with dwindling populations reports that foreign-born students from countries like Iran have flocked to programs – and paid tuition and fees – at upstate schools, including UB, that offer advanced scientific degrees, and interviews Mohsen Daghooghi, an Iranian postdoctoral fellow studying computational fluid mechanics at UB. The article notes that Daghooghi rejected the president’s suggestion that he or other Iranian students at the university were dangerous, noting the intense screening they undergo. “That’s a ridiculous excuse,” he said. “And it’s not just ridiculous, it’s insulting.”

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