She stood up for the city and refused to cower in the face of threats and smears,” one of more than 1,700 respondents said. The post Mayor Michelle Wu represented Boston well at the ‘sanctuary cities’ congressional hearing,

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu testified before a House committee on so-called "sanctuary cities" in Washington Wednesday.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu firmly defended the city’s immigration and law enforcement policies at a six-hour-long congressional hearing in Washington March 5, where she faced questions from Republican lawmakers on Boston’s immigrant population and cooperation with federal immigration officers.