NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with Boston mayor Michelle Wu, who just welcomed her third child. She's the first Boston mayor to give birth while in office.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu has been asked to testify at a Congressional hearing as part of a federal investigation into sanctuary cities.

Wu, who has said she will not take a formal maternity leave, gave birth to her daughter just over two weeks ago.

Mayor Michelle Wu will no doubt come up with some lame excuse for not testifying before Congress next month – maternity leave, racism, sexism, panic attack or some other equally bogus reason.

House Republicans called for Wu and three other mayors to appear before Congress next month to testify about their "sanctuary jurisdictions." The post Wu is asked to testify before Congress about Boston’s ‘sanctuary’ status appeared first on Boston.

Mayor Michelle Wu is weighing how to respond to a call from congressional Republicans for her and other Democratic mayors to testify on Capitol Hill over their local immigration policies.

On Monday, the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform opened a probe into so-called sanctuary cities for immigrants and has requested testimony from Boston Mayor Michelle Wu.

Boston Mayor Michelle Wu brought her newborn daughter to work at City Hall on Tuesday. Mira Wu Pewarski was born on Jan. 13 at 2 p.m., weighing 8 pounds, 4 ounces and measuring 20 inches. She is the third child of the mayor and her husband, Conor.