{"id":330289,"date":"2026-08-26T16:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330289\/"},"modified":"2026-08-26T16:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T16:52:16","slug":"nassau-county-not-included-in-15-county-lawsuit-against-state-over-ice-agreeement-bans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/330289\/","title":{"rendered":"Nassau County Not Included In 15-County Lawsuit Against State Over ICE Agreeement Bans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The spokesperson for Blakeman\u2019s office did not respond to questions about the future of Nassau County\u2019s agreement with ICE, or any potential legal action that would be filed by the county.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement Tuesday, James called the lawsuit, \u201ca frivolous waste of taxpayer dollars.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we have said from the start, the Local Cops, Local Crimes Act keeps New Yorkers safe by ensuring public safety resources go toward combating crime in our communities, not carrying out the work of ICE,\u201d James said. \u201cThe federal government claims they are going after the &#8216;worst of the worst,&#8217; but every American has seen the reality: ICE is terrorizing communities and families with indiscriminate raids, detaining people without regard for criminal record, and using local law enforcement to deliver on the administration&#8217;s mass deportation agenda.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>While Blakeman&#8217;s county is not in the northern district, the county executive has filed suit there before: In April, <a href=\"https:\/\/patch.com\/new-york\/longisland\/blakeman-sues-campaign-finance-board-over-match-funds-decision\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Blakeman sued in Albany over his campaign&#8217;s access to state matching funds<\/a>. Blakeman would win that lawsuit and have his campaign&#8217;s funding access restored.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The spokesperson for Blakeman\u2019s office did not respond to questions about the future of Nassau County\u2019s agreement with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330290,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":["post-330289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330289\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}