Mayors from four major cities are set to testify Wednesday in Congress as Republicans take aim at “sanctuary cities," arguing that they impede the Trump administration’s mass deportation agenda and protect people who are in the United States illegally.

The committee has invited the mayors of Boston, Chicago, Denver and New York City, all Democrats, to explain and defend the laws during a televised hearing at 10 a.m. Some mayors have defended the laws as making all their residents safer.

Eleven staff members have been placed on administrative leave pending an investigation into Saturday’s death of New York prison inmate Messiah Nantwi, the State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision said in a release Monday.

Fifteen prison staffers have been placed on leave following the death of an inmate in New York state, Gov. Kathy Hochul announced Tuesday The Democrat said the state department of corrections staffers were taken off the job at her direction as state police have launched a probe into the death of Messiah Nantwi at the Mid-State Correctional Facility on Saturday.

Thousands of corrections officers at dozens of prisons have been protesting working conditions in wildcat strikes across the state.

New York officials have started to fire state prison guards who failed to comply with a deal to end their illegal labor strike, which is now in its third week.

A wildcat strike by New York state prison guards stretched into a third week Monday, prompting officials to start firing workers for failing to abide by a deal to end the illegal labor action. The state’s homeland security commissioner,

The head of the FBI’s New York field office, who was reported to have resisted Justice Department efforts to scrutinize agents who participated in politically sensitive investigations, has told cowork

The top official of the FBI New York field office resigned from his post on Monday, sending a letter to his colleagues apologizing for not fulfilling 2 years in his post.

James Dennehy, the head of the FBI’s New York Field Office, was forced out one month after writing an email to his staff urging them to “dig in” after the Trump Justice Department demanded a list of all bureau employees who had worked on criminal cases against Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol.