Mayor Michelle Wu will no doubt come up with some lame excuse for not testifying before Congress next month – maternity leave, racism, sexism, panic attack or some other equally bogus reason.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has been asked to testify at a Congressional hearing as part of a federal investigation into sanctuary cities.

House Republicans called for Wu and three other mayors to appear before Congress next month to testify about their "sanctuary jurisdictions." The post Wu is asked to testify before Congress about Boston’s ‘sanctuary’ status appeared first on Boston.

On Monday, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform opened a probe into so-called sanctuary cities for immigrants and has requested testimony from Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.

Mayor Michelle Wu is weighing how to respond to a call from congressional Republicans for her and other Democratic mayors to testify on Capitol Hill over their local immigration policies.