Welcoming America, a national nonprofit organization, announced Monday that five U.S. cities and counties achieved or were redesignated as Certified Welcoming places. Nashua, NH was among the designees and is the first city in New Hampshire to attain it, and one of the first in the Northeast.

“According to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, among the factors contributing to the widespread workforce shortage is a decline in immigration and certain longstanding issues, including limited numbers of employment-based visa options.”

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Bruno D’Britto left his home in Rio de Janeiro as a teenager, arriving in Nashua to join his father, who had left Brazil for the United States years earlier after his parents divorced. Coming to the U.S. was a chance to seek better opportunities, he said, and to leave a neighborhood beset by violence.

In the last few months, governors Greg Abbott (Texas), Doug Ducey (Arizona), and Ron DeSantis (Florida) have bussed and flown asylum seekers to cities beyond the southern border region in an attempt to push an anti-immigrant agenda and infuse fear and hate in...