Nassau County will lock up 3,000 illegal immigrants this year, thanks to a special pact with the feds that has county cops teaming up with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents, officials said.
The agreement calls for ICE to rent up to 50 cells at the East Meadow jail at $195 a night — and county officials said Tuesday that they will have held thousands of migrants in the US illegally by the end of the year.
“Every community, especially the Hispanic American community in Nassau County, supports our cooperation with ICE so that their neighborhoods can be safe and their schools free from being overcrowded,” Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said in a statement Tuesday.
Blakeman announced the deal earlier this year, and said it not only opened up local jail space for illegal immigrants, it also called for 10 county cops to be designated to train with the feds and gives them unprecedented authority to detain migrants without warrants.
“Nassau County is the first county in America to have a fully comprehensive agreement with ICE under the 287(g) program, and will continue to work with ICE to keep our county safe from unvetted illegal immigrants who commit crimes such as poisoning our young people with fentanyl,” Blakeman said then.
The 10 detectives have since been trained by ICE, but have not been called on or deployed by ICE to assist in any of their operations, county officials said Tuesday. --->READ MORE HERE
Nassau County police will be granted federal authority to help arrest and deport illegal criminal migrants under an agreement with the Trump administration, officials announced Tuesday.
Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman jumped at the chance to have his police department participate in the program when US Immigration and Customs Enforcement reached out and sought cooperation to arrest and deport illegal aliens committing crimes.
“We don’t want illegal immigrants roaming around our community committing crimes. We don’t want them in our community,” Blakeman told The Post.
“Our detectives will arrest illegal immigrants engaged in criminal activity. We want to make sure these people are locked up and deported.”
Under the arrangement, ICE will “cross-designate” or delegate authority to 10 Nassau County detectives to enforce immigration law, as well as perform their other policing duties.
ICE has the authority to grant local law authorities federal immigration enforcement powers under its 287(g) program.
The county will receive federal funding for assisting with immigration enforcement.
As part of the agreement, Nassau County will also detain a suspected illegal immigrant for up to 72 hours and will give ICE a permanent presence at the county jail, Blakeman said.
Blakeman’s office noted that ICE was evicted from the county jail under his Democratic predecessor, Laura Curran.
“We are very grateful that President Trump and [border czar] Tom Homan are serious about a problem that has plagued our region,” said Blakeman, who claimed ICE did not seek such cooperation during the Biden administration.
Nassau County will become the largest police force in New York state, and among the largest in the country, to be granted special powers to crack down on illegal immigration, he said.
The Republican said he found it “bizarre” that other local governments and police forces might refuse such an offer. --->READ MORE HERE
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