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(NewsNation) — The mayors of 4 large U.S. sanctuary cities are acceptable to support their cities' presumption successful a House Oversight and Government Reform Committee proceeding Wednesday.
Boston's Michelle Wu, Chicago's Brandon Johnson, Denver's Mike Johnston and New York City's Eric Adams volition look questions from Republicans, including committee president James Comer, who has vowed to clasp the mayors accountable for their policies.
In January, Comer launched an investigation into sanctuary metropolis practices helium claims enactment "Americans’ lives astatine risk."
The proceeding is slated to statesman astatine 10 a.m. ET and is disposable to watercourse connected the House's authoritative website.
What is simply a sanctuary city?
While there's nary acceptable explanation of a sanctuary city, the word mostly refers to cities that bounds practice with Immigration and Customs Enforcement.
President Donald Trump's borderline czar, Tom Homan, says a emergence successful modern transnational transgression gangs has created an unprecedented hazard — 1 he's vowed to "eradicate."
"This is the biggest nationalist information contented this state has seen, and we're going to code it," Homan said successful notation to Tren de Aragua and MS-13.
Supporters of sanctuary cities accidental they privation to beryllium welcoming landing spots for immigrants.
"That's conscionable who we are. We're a city, again, that was established by a achromatic Haitian immigrant. That is the punch. We're responding to individuals who don't stock our values," Chicago's Johnson said.
They besides pass that victims and witnesses of crimes who are successful the state illegally whitethorn beryllium little apt to travel guardant if section instrumentality enforcement is cooperating with ICE.
The lone 1 of the 4 mayors who seems consenting to articulation forces with the Trump administration's effort is New York's embattled Adams, who has voiced enactment for rolling backmost policies barring metropolis unit from moving with ICE.
Adams' detractors judge his leniency connected the contented is an effort to curry favour with the Trump administration, which precocious ordered the Department of Justice to drop the mayor's national corruption charges.
Hearing could outgo sanctuary cities national funding
The 4 cities person struggled to negociate the influx of migrants from the confederate border, collectively spending billions of dollars connected structure and enactment services. But Wednesday's proceeding could portion sanctuary cities of immoderate national funding.
U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi has already sued the state of New York and the metropolis of Chicago, alleging they person obstructed the national authorities from enforcing migration laws. Shortly aft Trump took office, the Department of Justice directed national prosecutors to analyse whether section officials should look ineligible enactment for resisting national migration laws.
In summation to the 2 lawsuits, Bondi issued a memo in aboriginal February stating that sanctuary jurisdictions volition not person entree to national funds from the Department of Justice.
Trump talks migration successful associated address
The president leaned into immigration during his code to Congress connected Tuesday night, casting the decadeslong borderline situation arsenic simply a nonaccomplishment of Democratic leadership.
"Our friends successful the Democrat enactment kept saying we needed caller legislation, 'We indispensable person authorities to unafraid the border.' But it turned retired that each we truly needed was a caller president," Trump said.
Trump added that his predecessor, erstwhile President Joe Biden, "didn't conscionable unfastened our borders, helium flew amerciable aliens implicit them to overwhelm our schools, hospitals and communities passim the country."
There is nary grounds of Biden backing flights for migrants to participate the U.S.
NewsNation's Jeff Arnold and Alicia Nieves contributed to this report.
