A bipartisan delegation of mayors from various cities — including some dubbed “sanctuary” — will meet with Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Tuesday at the Department of Justice.
According to a press release, the meeting is to provide Sessions a chance to hear directly “from mayors and police chiefs about the importance, effectiveness, and constitutionality of local policing practices, and for the mayors to hear from the Attorney General about his department’s public safety priorities, including community policing, reducing violent crime, and immigration enforcement.”
The mayors and police chiefs going to Washington, D.C., for the meeting are part of the U.S. Conference of Mayors.
Tuesday’s meeting comes less than a month after the group met with Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly to discuss similar concerns and issues.
Mayors Mitch Landrieu of New Orleans and Steve Adler of Austin — both Democrats — hail from cities that have been dubbed as sanctuary.
Sanctuary cities are a target of Sessions, who last week threatened nine of them to show they comply with a certain federal statute that he says disobeying makes them sanctuary. New Orleans is one of eight cities who received the threat from the DOJ in a letter.
