Nassau County police can be granted federal authority to assist arrest and deport unlawful prison migrants beneath an settlement introduced Tuesday with the Trump administration.
Underneath the association, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will “cross-designate” or delegate authority to 10 Nassau County detectives to implement immigration legislation, in addition to carry out their different policing duties.
ICE has the authority to grant native legislation enforcement federal immigration enforcement powers beneath its 287(g) program.
The county will obtain federal funding for aiding with immigration enforcement.
Nassau County Govt Bruce Blakeman jumped on the probability to have his police division take part in this system when ICE officers reached out and sought cooperation to arrest and deport unlawful aliens committing crimes.
“We don’t want illegal immigrants roaming around our community committing crimes. We don’t want them in our community,” Blakeman informed The Publish.
“Our detectives will arrest illegal immigrants engaged in criminal activity. We want to make sure these people are locked up and deported.”
As a part of the settlement, Nassau County can even detain a suspected unlawful immigrant for as much as 72 hours and can give ICE a everlasting presence on the county jail, Blakeman mentioned.
Blakeman’s workplace famous that ICE was evicted from the county jail beneath his Democratic predecessor, Laura Curran.
“We are very grateful that President Trump and Tom Homan [border czar] are serious about a problem that has plagued our region,” mentioned Blakeman, who claimed ICE didn’t search such cooperation in the course of the Biden administration.
Nassau County will turn into the biggest police pressure in New York State, and among the many largest within the nation, to be granted particular powers to crack down on unlawful immigration.
Blakeman finds it “bizarre” that different native governments and police forces would refuse to take action.
This system will assist break up migrant gangs and theft rings which have terrorized Lengthy Island neighborhoods.
