Ex-NYPD chief slams sanctuary cities

Former New York City Police Commissioner Howard Safir said in an interview Sunday that it’s outrageous” to give identification cards to undocumented immigrants while slamming so-called sanctuary cities.

“They’re not only endangering the rest of us but they’re endangering the other immigrants in the country and all of our citizens,” Safir said during an interview with John Catsimatidis on AM 970 in New York.

“Because what’s happening now with sanctuary cities, they’re going right back into the population and continuing to commit additional crimes,” he said, referring to city’s that refuse to comply with federal immigration law on deportations.

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The former police commissioner echoed suggestions made by President-elect Donald Trump about deporting undocumented immigrants who have committed crimes.

“What we are going to do is get the people that are criminal and have criminal records, gang members, drug dealers, where a lot of these people, probably 2 million — it could be even 3 million — we are getting them out of our country or we are going to incarcerate,” Trump said in a November interview with “60 Minutes.”

Safir also mentioned several incidents of undocumented immigrants committing crimes and slammed New York City’s intention to destroy the backup for its identification card program as an “obstruction of justice.”