Nassau County has detained more than 1,400 illegal migrants for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) since February — as local cops now prepare to help with the Trump administration’s mass deportation effort.
The migrants have been held at East Meadow jail under a partnership with the feds, announcxed by Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman earlier this year.
The collaboration set aside 50 cells in the lock-up to help with the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.
Nassau County is holding migrants at East Meadow jail in an partnership with ICE. Edmund J Coppa
“If they are committing crimes in the metropolitan area — they are a threat to Nassau County,” Blakeman told The Post about housing ICE’s detainees.
Under the deal, migrants can be held in East Meadow jail for up to 72 hours before ICE either deports them or ships them off to a long-term detention facility, with the feds reimbursing