Mayor Michelle Wu is planning to defend Boston’s public safety record in response to a Department of Justice letter that put the city on notice that it would face consequences if it failed to take steps to remove sanctuary polices by Tuesday.

Wu will hold a press conference on City Hall Plaza Tuesday to respond to the letter she and other leaders of cities, counties and states identified as sanctuary jurisdictions were sent last week by U.S Attorney General Pam Bondi — and highlight policies that she says makes Boston the “safest major city in the country.”

An advisory for the press event sent Monday by the mayor’s office doesn’t get into specifics of what Wu will say. But the mayor’s remarks will likely mirror what she said last week, when she indicated that the city had no intention of complying with Bondi’s demands to cooperate more fully with the feds on immigration enforcement.

“Unlike the Trump administration, Boston follows the law, and it’s as simple as that,” Wu told reporters at an unrelated event in East Boston Friday. “The constant messaging that safety has to be imposed by an outside federal government coming in with extraordinary fear tactics is the exact opposite of what we know to be true here in Boston.

“We are the safest major city in the country because we are safe for everyone,” Wu said. “Boston does not back down to bullies. Boston does not back down in the face of threats, and certainly when the threats and the tactics seem to cross the line, and seem to be against the law.”

Attorney General Bondi’s letter sent to Wu last week characterizes Boston’s sanctuary policies as a threat to national security, however, by way of limiting local cooperation with federal immigration enforcement efforts through the city’s Trust Act.

“For too long, so-called sanctuary jurisdiction policies have undermined this necessary cooperation and obstructed federal immigration enforcement, giving aliens cover to perpetrate crimes in our communities and evade the immigration consequences that federal law requires,” Bondi wrote.

“You are hereby notified that your jurisdiction has been identified as one that engages in sanctuary policies and practices that thwart federal immigration enforcement to the detriment of the interests of the United States. This ends now.”

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Bondi gave Wu until Tuesday to submit a response that confirms her “commitment to complying with federal law” and identifying immediate steps to “eliminate laws, policies and practices that impede federal immigration enforcement.”

The AG’s letter does not specify what consequences Boston and other sanctuary jurisdictions identified by the feds will face should they fail to comply with the federal order.

Wu mentioned that the city has been challenging potential federal funding cuts in court. She said last Friday that her office was preparing a written response to Bondi’s letter.

Bondi’s office declined to comment on the mayor’s latest remarks. Wu was one of four mayors to testify before a GOP-led Congressional oversight committee last March on sanctuary policies and was referred to the DOJ for criminal prosecution.