The 287(g) program allows local police to work with ICE as a “force multiplier” during immigration enforcement operations.

Immigrant rights groups sued a Long Island county Tuesday over an agreement with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement that allows local police to carry out immigration enforcement.

Nassau County in February became the first county in New York to make a deal with ICE since President Donald Trump was inaugurated. The program — known as a 287(g) agreement after the federal law that authorizes such partnerships — allows law enforcement agencies to partner with ICE as a “force multiplier” to make immigration arrests.

Advocates and community groups, including the Episcopal Diocese of Long Island, the Central American Refugee Center and the Haitian-American Family of Long Island, said in their lawsuit that the partnership exceeds Nassau police’s authority under state law and allows a police agency already dogged by accusations of racial profiling to discriminate against the immigrant community. The lawsuit, filed in New York Supreme Court, names the county and its police department as defendants.

Long Island police sued after partnering with ICE to enforce immigration

Advocates sued Nassau County after it became the first New York county to partner with ICE after President Donald Trump took office.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/06/26/nassau-county-ice-lawsuit