Right-wing media figures mocked Worcester, Massachusetts, for voting to become a sanctuary city for transgender people while simultaneously denying attacks on transgender rights—even as they defended those very attacks.
Republican members of Congress hammered four Democratic mayors about their so-called sanctuary city policies, accusing them of endangering Americans and threatening to prosecute local officials.
Immigration enforcement supporters clashed with sanctuary city advocates outside City Hall on Wednesday as a congressional committee heard from Mayor Michelle Wu in Washington.
Philadelphia Mayor Cherelle L. Parker was not asked to appear before the Congressional committee but Philadelphia’s policies mirror those of several of the cities that were taken to task there.