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By Cathy Burke
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A former New York police commissioner slammed the city’s program to issue ID cards to illegal immigrants <\/a><\/strong>\u2013 \u00a0and called it an “obstruction of justice” for officials to destroy personal data collected from the program.<\/p>\n In an interview aired Sunday with radio host John Catsimatidis on “The Cats Roundtable,”<\/a><\/strong> Howard Safir, who served as police commissioner from 1996-2000, said it was dangerous for cities like New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco to act as “sanctuary cities.”<\/p>\n \u201cThey\u2019re not only endangering the rest of us but they\u2019re endangering the other immigrants in the country and all of our citizens,” Safir said. Safir condemned New York City’s municipal ID cards being given to illegal immigrants \u2013 and the city’s move to destroy personal data collected from the program. “It is horrific,” Safir said. “We have federal laws\u2026 and when mayors of cities flaunt that, I believe they are committing crimes.”<\/p>\n
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\n\u201cBecause what\u2019s happening now with sanctuary cities, they\u2019re going right back into the population and continuing to commit additional crimes,\u201d he said, referring to those cities’ refusal to comply with federal immigration law on deportations.<\/p>\n
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\n“Look at California \u2013 they’re giving illegals drivers licenses\u2026 this whole thing it totally out of control and needs to be fixed,” he said, adding about New York’s move to erase ID cardholders’ background data: “I call that obstruction of justice.”<\/p>\n