Mayor Adams says he’ll testify at GOP grilling on sanctuary city policy

Mayor Adams volition attest earlier a Republican oversight hearing connected sanctuary cities, his bureau confirmed connected Wednesday.

The mayors of Boston, Chicago and Denver person besides confirmed their attendance for the March 5 hearing, Rep. James Comer (R-KY), chairperson of the House Committee connected Oversight and Government Reform, said connected societal media Wednesday.

Comer launched the probe into cities with sanctuary policies yet “to enforce compliance with national migration law,” helium wrote. The committee has asked each of the mayors to supply them with materials astir their sanctuary policies.

“Sanctuary mayors person prioritized transgression amerciable aliens implicit the American people,” Comer said connected Twitter. “They beryllium Americans an mentation for their policies that jeopardize nationalist information and interruption national migration law.”

The Big Apple’s sanctuary policies artifact practice betwixt section instrumentality enforcement and national migration authorities and prohibition those agents from metropolis jails, schools and churches, among different locations. The laws purpose to guarantee immigrants tin usage metropolis services and study crimes without fearfulness of deportation.

Adams has said helium volition travel the laws of the metropolis — but has often said helium wants to alteration them.

After a December gathering with borderline czar Tom Homan, Adams said helium whitethorn usage enforcement orders to modify New York City’s existent sanctuary protections.

“I’m going to usage my enforcement powerfulness to spell aft unsafe radical who are committing convulsive acts arsenic migrants and asylum seekers,” Adams said.

The proceeding comes arsenic ICE agents person started rounding up undocumented immigrants, including successful New York City, arsenic portion of President Trump’s deportation agenda.

Since then, Adams has repeatedly said that helium supports the deportations of criminals and that helium wants to unafraid the border.

“We cannot person porous borders,” the politician said Monday. “We person to marque definite that our borders are secured, it’s a nationalist information issue.”

Adams has said helium won’t publically criticize Trump, but alternatively volition woody with him straight connected immoderate issues of concern.