Mineola, NY – Assemblywoman Michaelle C. Solages joined immigrants, advocates, fellow elected officials, and community members outside the Nassau County Legislature today to mark the implementation of New York’s statewide ban on 287(g) agreements and call on Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman to comply with the new law.

The ban, which takes effect today, prohibits formal agreements that allow local law enforcement officers to carry out federal immigration enforcement functions. Today also begins the 90-day countdown to the end of agreements between counties and ICE to detain immigrants.

“Effective policing depends on trust; communities need to feel safe going to the police, not afraid of them,” said Assemblywoman Michaelle C. Solages. “When local law enforcement gets pulled into federal immigration enforcement, that trust breaks down, and it makes all of us less safe. I hope Nassau County’s leadership recognizes this and follows the law to protect the relationship between our police and the people they serve.”

Earlier this month, Assemblywoman Michaelle C. Solages joined State Senator Julia Salazar and Nassau County Legislator Sam Gonzalez for an oversight visit to the Nassau County Correctional Center to examine the County’s cooperation with ICE and the treatment of individuals held on behalf of federal immigration authorities. County officials reported that approximately 1,000 people had been detained for ICE so far in 2026, following roughly 2,400 ICE holds in 2025.

Blakeman has previously signaled that he would attempt to circumvent the new law and may sue to prevent its implementation. Nassau County has maintained one of the state’s most extensive 287(g) partnerships with federal immigration authorities.

Over the past year and a half, the Trump Administration has terrorized immigrant communities across the state– separating families, abducting mothers in the street, and racially discriminating against Black and brown New Yorkers. On Long Island, this has been partly facilitated through the use of formal 287(g) agreements, with Nassau County’s being one of the most robust.

In May, after a hard-fought campaign led by immigrants, allies, and elected officials in New York, the state passed a slate of new protections to end formal collusion between local law enforcement and ICE, end contracts with detention facilities, and establish guidelines for safeguarding students in schools, a significant step that will help the state’s immigrant communities. Advocates are still pushing for passage of a law to tackle informal collusion between local law enforcement and ICE, which is the primary way in which New Yorkers are caught up in the administration’s deportation machine.