This is the Brian Lair show on WNYC.

I'm producer Amina Serna, filling in for Brian today.

Now we'll look at the news coming out of Long Island's Nassau County, focusing on how police departments will work with immigration and customs enforcement during the Trump era.

Last week, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakman unveiled a new program authorizing 10 police detectives to work with ICE to arrest and deport local undocumented residents accused of committing a crime.

Let's take a listen to his explanation of the program's goals at a press conference held last Tuesday.

We are partnering with ICE to accomplish two things.

Number one, we are going to cross-designate and embed Nassau County police detectives with ICE

for the purposes of picking up targeted illegal migrants who have committed crimes.

And then we will be detaining them in the jail as part of a short-term

detainment program at which time then ICE will find either a permanent detainment facility

or they will simply deport the illegal migrants. I want to stress that this program is about illegal migrants who have

committed crimes. This isn't about raids. This is targeted enforcement of our laws based here

in the state of New York, people who have committed crimes here, and have violated federal laws

by being in the United States illegally.

Joining me now to share her reporting on the news coming out of Nassau County is Bahar O'Sadan,

Nassau County Politics Reporter at Newsday.

Bahar, thanks for joining us.

Thanks for having me. Can you start off by explaining

what's changed in Nassau County's policy regarding the police department aiding ICE? What was the

policy before Executive Blakeman made this announcement last week? And what is it now? Absolutely.

So, you know, for years, ICE officers have

been coming into the New York City area making arrests, right? And in many cases, local police

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