MINEOLA, N.Y.-- Nassau County police will work directly with Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents to carry out operations, County Executive Bruce Blakeman announced Tuesday morning. Blakeman ...

3 days ago · Nassau County, on Long Island, becomes the second county in New York State to join a federal program that uses local law enforcement officers as ICE agents. Listen to this article · 7:38 min ...

3 days ago · Nassau County police have been granted federal authority to detain illegal immigrants in place of ICE, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman announced. Long Island Press is the new home of your ...

2 days ago · Nassau County presumably would operate under the agreement’s “warrant service officer” model, which permits trained local law enforcement to act as ICE agents. However, the agreement still isn’t public, so its exact details are still unclear.

2 days ago · Nassau County executive jumps at chance to help ICE deport ‘criminal' migrants Under the arrangement on Long Island, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement or ICE will delegate authority to ten ...

2 days ago · Recent guidance from state Attorney General Letitia James advises local law enforcement against entering into agreements with ICE, saying they remain “unsettled” in New York law.. Advocacy groups were quick to criticize Nassau County’s plan. Susan Gottehrer, the Nassau County regional director of the New York Civil Liberties Union, called it “a dangerous decision that will undermine ...

3 days ago · NASSAU COUNTY, N.Y. (PIX11) – The Nassau County Police Department will be directly participating in ICE enforcement to detain undocumented immigrants accused of crimes, County Executive Bruce ...

3 days ago · Brian Flanagan, ICE Special Agent along with Nassau County Executive Bruce A. Blakeman, Nassau County Police Commissioner Patrick Ryder, announce new ICE enforcement measures in Nassau County.

3 days ago · Blakeman says 10 Nassau detectives will soon be able to assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) by detaining those living in the county illegally and commit illegal offenses.

2 days ago · Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman said the police department will help federal ICE agents carry out targeted operations against lawbreakers in the county without U.S. documentation.