Migrant suspected of setting woman on fire should be the last straw: End NYC’s sanctuary city law

The latest brutality with illegal migrants should remove any doubt: It is no longer time to end sanctuary city policies in New York.

The horrific cruelty of this atrocity is simply unimaginable, even by Gotham standards.

Police say Sebastian Zapeta-Calil, a Guatemalan illegal migrant, set a sleeping woman on fire aboard an F train at the Coney Island station and watched with satisfaction as she burned alive.

A medieval level of savagery – and a predictably sick result of woefully misguided policies that have turned the city into a haven for border jumpers.

Including gangbangers, human traffickers, drug dealers, street thugs, and Hannibal-Lecter-level psychos like the monster that incited this harmless woman minding her business in a subway car.

Why target sanctuary city rules?

Consider: Zapeta-Calil crossed the border into Arizona and 2018 and was promptly deported (thanks to the policies in place under then-President Donald Trump).

He then in again country and at some point thereafter headed for New York, where local policies guarantee shelter, food and other taxpayer-funded assistance to migrants and prohibit officers from working with ICE to deport even those who commit new crimes.

In other words, he went where he would be most able to do whatever he wanted without much regard for the law or fear of consequences.

Zapeta-Calil is believed to have lived here for more than a year, and called a transit summons in 2023 (strong evidence that transit criminals are dangers to society at large).

And here we are today with a crime so heinous and senseless that not even the most well-sounding progressive could reasonably excuse or justify policies that block ICE from pursuing criminal migrants.

They’ll try, of course — as they turn into pretzels defending the absurd law, expanded under Mayor Bill de Blasio, who calls for a conviction before handing over migrants to ICE. . . if ICE happens to ask.

That law has turned the city into a utopia for murderous migrants and a nightmare for their victims and everyone else.

What will it take for the city to reconsider such self-destructive madness?

Mayor Adams, new NYPD Chief Jessica Tisch and the sensible members of the council should work as closely as possible with incoming border czar Tom Homan to send criminal migrants home.

President-elect Trump and Congress need to pass legislation that cuts off federal funds, if necessary, for localities with crazy sanctuary laws like New York.

And everyday New Yorkers across the political spectrum must let their council representatives know that their humanitarian act appears to have taken another life, in the most gruesome way possible.

Short about it? Expect more carnage.