内容摘要：González, now back in Venezuela, says he wouldn’t have accepted the money, because it would have meant registering with the U.S. government, which he no longer trusts. And that’s what he’s telling the dozens of migrants in the U.S. who contact him each week asking the best way home.

González, now back in Venezuela, says he wouldn’t have accepted the money, because it would have meant registering with the U.S. government, which he no longer trusts. And that’s what he’s telling the dozens of migrants in the U.S. who contact him each week asking the best way home.

“We are having record breaking year after record breaking year of disasters and insured losses, and we have been searching for meaningful ways to reduce the severity and the frequency of those losses,” said Fred Malik, managing director of the Fortified program.The three levels of designations — Fortified Roof, Silver and Gold — employ methods like improving roof fasteners, using impact-rated doors and windows, and more securely anchoring walls to their foundation. The program requires third-party verification of work.

About 80,000 homes across 32 states now have Fortified designations, with over 53,000 in Alabama.The state began looking for ways to improve storm outcomes after Hurricane Ivan in 2004 jolted the state’s insurance market. “Ivan was absolutely devastating,” said Alabama Insurance Commissioner Mark Fowler. “Our market was going crazy, insurers were leaving.”It became the only state to implement mandatory minimum insurance discounts for Fortified homes, currently as much as half off the wind portion of homeowners’ premiums. It also launched the

incentive program, offering grants of up to $10,000 for homeowners retrofitting their houses to Fortified standards.The state has doled out $86 million for 8,700 Fortified retrofits since 2015. Fowler credits the initiative with also catalyzing demand for new Fortified construction and incentivizing contractors and inspectors to learn the standards.

“It worked like gangbusters,” he said. “We’ve seen the market substantially stabilized.”

offered researchers their first chance to assess the program’s benefits in a real storm. “It really was a prototypical storm that anybody who lives on the hurricane coast is liable to see in any given year,” said Malik.But younger AAPI adults are more worried about the impact on campuses. About 7 in 10 AAPI adults under 30 are “extremely” or “very” concerned about restrictions to free speech on campuses and federal government cuts to university research, compared to about half of AAPI adults ages 60 and older.

Tarun Puri, 59, of Clearwater, Florida, supports arresting or deporting international students who participated in campus protests. “You pay so much money to come and study. What is the point of protesting?” said Puri, a registered Republican who was born in India and went to college there. “Because you go to another country you should respect the law and order of the country.”If he had a child in college today who was considering taking part in demonstrations, he said he would advise them not to draw attention to themselves and instead “go to the library and study.”

The difference in attitudes could be explained, at least in part, by older and younger AAPI adults’ life experiences.“If you’re younger, you’re more likely to have gone to college in the U.S.,” said Karthick Ramakrishnan, executive director of AAPI Data and researcher at the University of California, Berkeley. “If you’re 60 and above, if you went to college, you’re more likely to have gone to college in Asia, which is a very different system.”