The chairmen of three U.S. House committees sought documents on Thursday related to recent Trump administration firings of top Department of Homeland Security officials, escalating tensions between congressional Democrats and the White House over immigration policy.
U.S. Representatives Elijah Cummings, Bennie Thompson and Jerrold Nadler, Democrats who head the House of Representatives Oversight, Homeland Security and Judiciary committees, said in a statement they were"concerned that the president may have removed DHS officials because they refused his demands to violate federal immigration law and judicial orders."
In a letter to the committee on Wednesday, the White House said Miller would not testify about administration immigration initiatives, including Trump's policy of separating migrant children from their parents and his threat to send immigrants in the country illegally to so-called sanctuary cities. Cummings, whose committee has launched multiple investigations into Trump administration and White House policies, accused Trump on Wednesday of an"unprecedented, and growing pattern of obstruction" after he ordered federal employees not to comply with congressional investigations.
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