Comer launches investigation of sanctuary cities, asks mayors to testify

House Republicans are calling connected sanctuary metropolis mayors to attest adjacent period astir the policy's interaction connected nationalist information and the refusal to cooperate with national migration enforcement.

U.S. Rep. James Comer, R-Tenn., seat of the GOP-controlled House Committee connected Oversight and Reform, said helium was launching an probe into sanctuary cities crossed the United States to find whether they person complied with national migration enforcement laws. 

In a letter, helium asked Michelle Wu, Brandon Johnson, Mike Johnston and Eric Adams, the mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York City, respectively, to supply documents and accusation related to the sanctuary policies of each city.

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They were each asked to attest astatine a nationalist proceeding connected the substance connected Feb. 11. Fox News Digital has reached retired to each mayor. 

"On his archetypal time successful office, President Donald Trump took decisive actions to reconstruct the regularisation of law," Comer wrote connected X. "It is present imperative that our migration laws are enforced crossed the state and that transgression aliens are swiftly removed from our communities."

The letters said 12 states and hundreds of cities and counties crossed the state person sanctuary policies. However, Comer said the 4 cities singled retired "stand retired successful their abject nonaccomplishment to comply with national law." 

Sanctuary cities bounds practice betwixt section instrumentality enforcement and national migration authorities. Supporters reason that enforcement of migration is the occupation of the national government. 

Opponents accidental sanctuary policies harbor criminals, arsenic good arsenic those successful the country illegally, and enactment the public, including amerciable immigrants, astatine risk. 

Adams has spoken retired against transgression amerciable immigrants, who helium said enactment New Yorkers astatine risk. In addition, helium has said helium is consenting to enactment with Trump Border Czar Tom Homan. 

Meanwhile, Wu, the Boston Mayor, has said her metropolis won't cooperate with Trump's wide deportation program, contempt the portion seeing a fig of amerciable immigrants with transgression charges released backmost onto the streets.

"Elections person consequences, and the national authorities is liable for a definite acceptable of actions, and cities, nary idiosyncratic city, tin reverse oregon override immoderate parts of that," she told WCVB-TV successful November. "But what we tin bash is marque definite that we are doing our portion to support our residents successful each imaginable way, that we are not cooperating with those efforts that really endanger the information of everyone by causing wide fearfulness and having ample standard economical impact."

In a connection to Fox News Digital, a spokesperson for the City of Boston said: "We are arrogant that Boston is the safest large metropolis successful the United States. We person received the missive and are reviewing it."

Chicago Mayor Johnson has doubled down connected his enactment of the city's sanctuary policies. 

"I find it unconscionable that this medication would effort to make not conscionable part but fearfulness wrong our nationalist schools," Johnson said, referring to imaginable national raids. 

He has directed metropolis departments to "stand steadfast and uphold the section ordinance" successful compliance with the Illinois Trust Act, which prohibits section instrumentality enforcement from assisting national migration enforcement efforts.

Denver Mayor Mike Johnston has besides supported sanctuary policies contempt the beingness of members of Venezuelan pack Tren de Aragua successful Denver and the suburb of Aurora.

On Sunday, national agents arrested 50 members of the pack successful Colorado and seized drugs, weapons, and cash, authorities said. 

In his archetypal week aft returning to the White House, Trump has rescinded aggregate directives and has targeted amerciable immigrants with transgression records successful a bid of raids.

Raids by agents with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) person been reported successful Colorado, New York City, Buffalo, N.Y., Boston, California, and Minnesota, with hundreds of amerciable immigrants being detained. 

In addition, deportation flights person besides begun.