Of course, Massachusetts is not on this list.

The State Department has identified 19 “welcoming” communities where Afghans and Iraqis could settle based on a number of measures, including but not limited to housing availability.

It goes without saying, New York City didn’t make the cut. pic.twitter.com/CUkOUdvkXh

— Aaron Carr (@aaronAcarr) August 31, 2021

There is a candidate for mayor in my city who is a straight-up xenophobe. He and his NIMBY cronies just couch it in as many environmental and social-justice terms as they can. I’ll never forget the town next door, supposedly very liberal, that rejected Vietnamese boat people after Saigon. A lot of these people in that town, and mine.