The Supervision Committee of the Representatives Chamber is listening to the Democratic governors of Illinois, Minnesota and New York during a timely audience on the immigration policies of their states that some members of the committee led by Republicans call “sanctuary” policies that claim protecting criminal foreigners from the immigration application.
Illinois JB Pritzker, Tim Walz by Minnesota and Kathy Hochul in New York are appearing at a close -observed audience that occurs as another state led by Democrat, California, is dealing with a series of protests related to immigration caused by President Donald Trump to display US sailors and the national guard of the area.
The president of Supervision of the House of Representatives, James Eat, requested in April that these Democratic governors testify, claiming that “the Trump administration is taking decisive measures to deport illegal criminal foreigners of our nation, but the reckless sanctuary states such as Illinois, Minnesota and New York actively seek to obstruct the federal immigration application.”
“The governors of these states must explain why they are prioritizing the protection of illegal criminal foreigners on the safety of US citizens, and must be responsible,” he said in a notice of the media for the next hearing.
The Sanctuary states still enforce federal federal immigration laws, but the term often refers to a limited collaboration with the application of immigration and customs of the United States while promulgating policies that are more favorable for undocumented people.
Democratic governors have been preparing to testify and prepare to defend their records on immigration and public safety, according to the auditory material reviewed by ABC News. It will also highlight how their states cooperate with the federal immigration application.
The governor of Minnesota, Tim Walz, the governor of Illinois, JB Pritzker and the governor of New York, Kathy Hochul, attend an audience of the House Supervision Committee with the governors of the United States on state policies with respect to undocumented migrants, in Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, June 12, 2025.
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“Despite the rhetoric of the Republicans in Congress, Governor Pritzker will share facts on how this Bipartisan Public Security Law fully complies with the federal law and guarantees that the police can focus on doing their job well,” said a spokesman for the governor of Illinois in a statement before the hearing.
Also before the hearing, the state of Illinois retained an external lawyer to provide experience to respond to the committees of the committee, said the spokesman, claiming that “the Republicans of Congress are wasting taxpayers’ dollars, all to discover that Illinois has always followed the law.”
A spokesman for the Association of Democratic Governors also suggested that their leaders focused on governing instead of spending time on “political acrobatics.”
“While Republicans in DC spend their time doing political stunts, Democratic governors are busy doing real things for their states, reducing costs and keeping safe people,” said Johanna Warshaw, spokesman for the group, in a statement.
In March, the Supervision Committee held another journalistic hearing with the mayors of the “Sanctuary City”, including Boston Mayor Michelle Wu, the mayor of Chicago Brandon Johnson, the mayor of Denver, Mike Johnston, and the mayor of the city of New York, Eric Adams. These leaders defended their actions on the application of immigration, while the Republicans in the committee accused them of increasing crime by challenging the immigration policies of the Trump administration.
Representative James Eating, president of the Committee, speaks during an audience of the Government Reform Committee and Government Supervision with Mayors of the City of Sanctuary, in the United States Capitol, on March 5, 2025 in Washington, DC.
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On Wednesday, the Republicans of Supervision of the House of Representatives published a Three -minute digital advertisement To show “how sanctuary policies do not protect Americans”, which presents Buzzy News news transmissions about adjacent crimes of immigration, testimony of the mayors at the beginning of this spring at the audience of the “Santuary Cities” house and Pritzker, Walz and Hochul video policy on immigration policy.
“The governors of the sanctuary are protecting criminal foreigners, and then pretend that the consequences do not exist. Tomorrow Hochul, Walz and Pritzker will be in the hot seat since their policies cause chaos in their states. This is what you do not want you to see,” the official account of the committee of the committee of the committee Posted in X.
