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Plan to skewer US sanctuary city mayors backfires on Republicans

New York, Chicago, Boston and Denver mayors use platform at Capitol hearing to reject claims about crime and gangs

Mayors Eric Adams, Michael Johnston, Brandon Johnson and Michelle Wu are sworn in during a House hearing in Washington DC on Wednesday. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

Mayors Eric Adams, Michael Johnston, Brandon Johnson and Michelle Wu are sworn in during a House hearing in Washington DC on Wednesday. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images

congressional hearing designed to criticize sanctuary city policies unexpectedly shifted on Wednesday, as a planned attack by Republican lawmakers instead dissolved into a platform that amplified Democraticmayors’ arguments about immigration and urban safety.

Before a packed room on Capitol Hill, the House oversight committee, led by its Republican chair, James Comer of Kentucky, sought to portray sanctuary cities – a city that touts municipal laws that protect undocumented migrants – as havens for criminal activity and foreign gangs.

“The point that we’ve got to iron out today is that we have to have cooperation with federal law to turn over those illegal criminals to Ice and we’ve heard reports and many of you have said publicly that you are going to obstruct that,” Comer said. “That is against the law. And we’re going to hear more about that today.”

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Author: Joseph Gedeon in Washington

Source: The Guardian

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