Mayors say they won’t change despite worries about migrant crime.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu defended the whopping $650,000 legal bill the city paid to help her prepare for a Congressional hearing on sanctuary cities, saying it was necessary amid threats to put her in jail and cut the Hub’s federal funding.

Wu emerged from the marathon hearing largely unscathed, and managed to land a few hits in the face of aggressive questioning.

If you want to make us safe, pass gun reforms, stop cutting Medicaid, stop cutting cancer research, stop cutting funds for veterans. That is what will make our city safe.”

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

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.

While Mayor Wu prepares to face the heat in Washington, President Donald Trump's border czar has again suggested that he would personally come to Boston.

The much-hyped hearing, Wu’s first time on the national stage, turned out not to be so much of a show but more of a legal grilling of the mayor and three other city mayors aimed at getting them to

The firm charged a rate of $950 per hour, and the city “expects to pay” up to $650,000 for work related to the hearing, a spokesperson for the Mayor’s Office said. The post Wu’s prep for testifying to Congress cost $650,

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu will surely face a hostile environment from House Republicans when she testifies about immigration enforcement.

Wu was one of four Democratic mayors called before the committee. The three others — Eric Adams of New York City, Brandon Johnson of Chicago, and Mike Johnston of Denver — chose not to give the yes or no answer requested by Representative Nancy Mace of South Carolina when she asked, “Is breaking into our country against the law?”