Hearing of “Sanctuary”: The Republicans threaten to refer Mayor of Denver, Chicago, Boston, to investigate criminal investigations | News

The US House Committee for surveillance and government reform hearings on “sanctuary cities” has a sharp turn on Wednesday when Republican members threatened to refer democratic mayors like Mike Johnston to the Ministry of Justice for Criminal Investigations.

The US MP Anna Paulina Luna, a Republican in Florida, described the failure of the democratic mayors from Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York, to work together with the federal authorities.

Based on the answers that these mayors made available to the committee on Wednesday, Luna said and waved a stack of documents that after the hearing, she would go a transfer to US general Prosecutor Pam Bondi.

“They all speak of a broken immigration system, and yet here they help and promote them in this entire process,” said Luna.

Luna said these mayors were not “bad people”, but “ideologically misleading”.

Johnston repeatedly pushed her and other Republicans in the Committee on whether he is still ready to go to prison to hinder President Donald Trump's mass shift.

“I said that I was ready to work for our residents,” said Johnston. “And the context was the point at which the government threatened to use the US military on the streets of our cities to get children out of schools and churches.”

Johnston referred to the many years of practice of the agents of the US immigration and customs authority (ICE), which are subject to the implementation of assertiveness on “sensitive” places such as churches, schools and places of worship.

One of Trump's first actions when returning to the White House was to reverse this practice and to arrange a number of lawsuits, including one of the public schools in Denver.

At the center of hearing the congress on Wednesday is the politics of the communities, which are referred to as “protective cities” in order to prevent the local law enforcement authorities from preventing or preventing the immigration status of a person reported to the federal authorities.

During the entire hearing, the Republicans repeatedly urged Johnston to oppose the Trump's approach to illegal immigration, while the Democrats put on the claims that Trump's mass deportation efforts would make cities more secure. The mayor vigorously defended the latter with the exception of the New York Mayor Eric Adams.

The federal authorities accused Adams in September that they accepted more than 100,000 US dollars of illegal campaign contributions and trips from a Turkish official and others, while Adams was the President of Borlough in Brooklyn.

Trump's Ministry of Justice reversed the course and ordered the New York prosecutors to finish the case, and Democrats effectively accused the mayor of completing a back room business. Seven prosecutors returned in protest.

“There was no consideration, no agreement,” said Adams. “I didn't do anything wrong.”

It was an explanation that Adams repeated during the entire hearing.

Mayor says City “made a choice”

More than 320,000 immigrants have arrived in Chicago, Denver and New York City in the past four years, the mayors from these cities said. The immigrants illegally crossed the United States from Mexico when the border crisis spiral and surrounded in the city centers of America.

The mayor of Boston, Michelle Wu, said that civil servants did not ask about the immigration status of a person and therefore have no statistics on how many have arrived in their city.

The costs for the response to taxpayers in New York City were astonishing 7 billion US dollars, Adams informed the committee members.

In Denver, these costs were around 89 million US dollars, although Johnston delivered a slightly different number to the committee.

Johnston's handling of illegal immigration was the focus when he tried to justify his reaction to the crisis in front of the legislators.

Johnston tried to make the crisis morally with buses that broke off hundreds of immigrants every day.

In his prepared statement, Johnston Matthäus quoted 25:35.

“As a man of faith, I have a moral obligation to take care of the needy,” Johnston told the committee. “As the Scripture says: Because I was hungry and you gave myself something to eat, I was thirsty. You gave me something to drink. I was a stranger and you invited me.

“So, we did that. In Denver we believe that our problems can be solved and we solve them. So we went to work. “

Johnston also tried to shift the fault of Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, and his bus program, which has transported more than 100,000 immigrants from Lone Star State to Chicago, Denver and New York City in the past two and half years.

Abbott contained around 19,200 immigrants according to Denver, which represents about half of all immigrants who arrived in the city.

“When these buses came again and again, Denver as a city decided not to hate each other, but to help each other, not to turn on each other, but to turn each other and see whether we can solve a problem together that felt bigger than everyone,” said Johnston.

Republican congress member of Johnston: “You will loosen him on the street”

With immigrants who arrived in cold conditions, Johnston implied that it was not more than sweatshirts and slippers that it was not time to discuss the nation's immigration policy.

The key to the city was the strategy of expanding temporary apartments and supporting 8,700 immigrants who submit asylum and work permits.

In his explanation, Johnston also said that despite more than 40,000 immigrants, this influx did not lead to a corresponding wave of crime in two years.

Murders, said Johnston, fell by 17%and shot by 24%and car theft by 29%.

The legislator – in particular the US MP Jim Jordan, a Republican in Ohio – pushed Johnston on Friday for release and a Taser incident with ice agents and Abraham Gonzales, a alleged member of the Venezolan gang tren de Aragua (TDA), who was charged because of several criminals.

The TDA, which gained a foot in Metro Denver, had taken over at least two apartment complexes in the neighboring Aurora.

Jordan said Denver informed one hour before Gonzales Ice was published, which indicates that the short -term actors were attacked.

“They leave him on the street,” said Jordan. “Why not let him go to ice?”

Johnston denied the characterization that the city's policy had shielded criminals from the law enforcement authorities, and found that local officials have worked with federal agents on more than 1,200 ice cream parlors in the past seven years.

It was statistics that Johnston repeated several times in more than five hours.

“In the future, each of them will have to cooperate in full of their skills,” said US -Rep. William Timmons, a Republican in South Carolina, to the mayors.

In the past two years, Denver has welcomed almost 43,000 immigrants, most of them from South and Central America. While the city's officials did not follow how many stayed in Colorado, bus, aircraft and train tickets suggest that about half have remained. This corresponds to adding a city the size of gold in less than two years.

In the middle of the crisis, Johnston took on the role of de facto Spokesman for the inner cities affected by the increase in border crossings, he appeared on national television and attended the capital of the nation to push their case.

When Johnston pushed on federal measures, he repeatedly advocated the congress and the White House to provide additional funds for cities with the crisis, the work permit and a “coordinated entry program”.

While the surrounding area, whether Denver is a “refuge” KSTADT, Johnston confirmed the need for border security on Wednesday.

“America,” said Johnston, “is not just a place. It's a faith.”