Connolly [Sanctuary City hearing]: Today, republicans have hauled before us, the mayors of four American cities, to frame them as lawless, because those cities have some limits on how intrusively and aggressively the own officials can conduct federal immigration operations and responsibilities.

[these cities do not conduct any immigration operations, and, in fact, do the opposite by releasing violent illegals]

Mayor Johnston: At one point, we were receiving ten to eleven buses a day, dropping off as many as three hundred people, mostly women and children, in ten degree weather, with only sandals and a t-shirt, leaving them in danger of freezing to death on our streets.

[the majority of illegals are fighting-age males, not women and children]

Mayor Wu: This federal administration is making hard working, tax paying, God-fearing residents, afraid to live their lives.

[if they are illegals, they should be afraid; they do not belong here]

Bier: We now know that most ICE arrests since the inauguration have been of people without a criminal record.

[illegal aliens are criminals by definition]