...Taken together, the documents show publicly supported institutions treating immigration and demographic change as tools of rural economic policy—and researching how a resettlement model could be adopted elsewhere.
Federal officials also promoted southern Vermont’s approach directly.
In a June 18, 2024 letter to higher-education leaders, then-Secretary of State Antony Blinken and then-Education Secretary Miguel Cardona encouraged colleges to expand their involvement in refugee resettlement, including using available campus facilities for temporary housing.
... They singled out the School for International Training in Brattleboro. According to the letter, the school had opened seven residence halls, classrooms and other facilities to welcome, house and educate more than 300 newly arrived refugees since 2022.
The economic-development partners were also reporting measurable results.
A May 2025 Working Communities Challenge report reported more than 400 newcomers welcomed to southern Vermont and more than 165 refugees placed in jobs with 52 employers. It identified the challenge as a partnership involving Vermont, philanthropic organizations, communities and the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.
. One beneficiary was Against the Grain Gourmet, a Brattleboro food producer. The report said workforce programs helped the company bring on 30 newcomers in 2024, and that full staffing helped it increase production by 22%.
Those are the partners’ reported benefits. The university’s research also identified practical limits.
In a November 2025 update, UVM said researchers had interviewed more than 50 refugee households and over 30 volunteers and sponsors. Refugees generally reported positive experiences and success finding initial work and housing, alongside difficulties with transportation, longer-term housing, educational access and jobs that matched their qualifications.
Any effort to export this model should account for those constraints. Residents deserve clear figures on housing capacity, public costs, employer benefits and the services needed to support both existing households and new arrivals.
The demographic objective is already explicit. So is the ambition to develop a national model.
““serving as a model for rural refugee resettlement across the United States.””
Good. They can start with 17,000 Afrikaners........
How To ‘Increase Demographic Diversity’ In Rural America Through Immigration.
Let me reword that for you.,
How To destroy America by introducing ‘Increased Demographic Diversity’ In Rural America Through Immigration.
Who came up with this idea? Stalin, Pol Pot, or Chairman Mao?
We’re just cattle to our politicians. One big social experiment.
“the Leahy Institute is supported by a four-year, $14 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute for Food and Agriculture.”
Run by his family members at generous compensation, no doubt.
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Look at Ireland and Great Britain. These people want us gone.
The Brits did this by importing 1200 savages and plopping them down into a small village of ~300.
So, the village voted and seceded from Britain.
So the university, the Feds and the liberal state officials got together to jam this down Vermonters’ throats. Got it.