Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson proudly defended Chicago's sanctuary city status on Capitol Hill on Wednesday as he testified before a congressional committee on the city's immigration policies, saying,

Immigration law, the mayors said, is a federal responsibility, and the attempt to put that responsibility on local law enforcement makes communities distrust the police and others they may need to call for help. Trump’s crackdown, the mayors said, has terrified immigrants, many of them in the U.S. legally.