“Look at our beautiful city,” Wu said to cheers during a briefing at City Hall Plaza attended by a number of elected officials and community activists.

When the Justice Department demanded whether Boston would continue to resist cooperating with mass deportations, the event on City Hall Plaza Tuesday morning probably wasn’t the response it had in min...

“You are hereby notified that your jurisdiction has been identified as one that engages in sanctuary policies and actions that thwart federal immigration enforcement to the detriment of the interests...