New York City’s push to make it easier for illegal migrants to obtain municipal residency ID cards so they can get access to free health care and housing is “absolutely insanity,” a Republican US senator raged early Tuesday.

Sen. Ashley Moody (R-Fla.), who serves on the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions, ripped the Adams administration-backed change, arguing that the “reckless and dangerous” policy will “pretty much set [the] city on fire.”

“Absolute insanity. They are expanding the ways illegal immigrants can get IDs to get more benefits, housing, health care, et cetera,” the senator and former Florida attorney general told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends First.” “One of the ways they can do that is, shockingly, [to] show their paperwork from the Federal Bureau of Prisons. They are rolling out a welcome sign to those that have been convicted felons to come into their city and use that to get identification if you’re here illegally.”

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