Boston Mayor Michelle Wu testifies during a House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on March 5. Following the hearing, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, R-Fla., said she was referring the mayors to the Justice Department for criminal prosecution. (Anadolu via Getty Images)
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston, New York City Mayor Eric Adams, Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson and Boston Mayor Michelle Wu all defended their respective city’s sanctuary policies at the fiery hearing. They defended their communities as welcoming and called on Congress to pass immigration reform.
Republican members of Congress hammered the mayors for their sanctuary city policies, accusing them of endangering Americans and threatening to prosecute local officials.
Luna told the mayors that their policies were hurting citizens as well as migrants.
Migrants are seen sleeping outside the Roosevelt Hotel in Midtown Manhattan on July 31, 2023. (Luiz C. Ribeiro/New York Daily News/Tribune News Service via Getty Images)
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Luna, a member of the House Freedom Caucus, also leads the House Oversight Committee’s Task Force on the Declassification of Federal Secrets, a new task force focused on the declassification of federal secrets – including records related to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., and other documents in the public interest.
She has also been pressing the Justice Department for the release of classified records related to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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