Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin told Fox News that sanctuary New York City is harboring 7,169 known criminal illegal aliens, purposefully shielding them from immigration officials.

McLaughlin revealed the cost to a city’s safety and security with sanctuary policies that hide vicious criminals from deportation while leaving citizens in danger.

“We’re seeing that these criminal illegal aliens are exiting the jails and going back onto New York or Chicago or these other sanctuary streets to re-perpetuate their crimes,” McLaughlin told Fox News. “Today in New York City’s jails are 7,169 criminal illegal aliens. We’re talking about hundreds of murderers, hundreds of sexual predators, drug traffickers, the worst of the worst.”

McLaughlin also singled out one New York De

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