A federal judge ruled that Suffolk County's sheriff's office acted illegally by holding undocumented immigrants for deportation, potentially leaving taxpayers liable for a $60 million class-action lawsuit.
Suffolk County taxpayers could be on the hook for $60 million in a migrant class-action lawsuit for holding on to illegal immigrants until the feds could show up and ship them out of the country, officials said Wednesday. A federal judge ruled that the sheriff’s office in the Long Island county acted on its own when it held undocumented immigrants for deportation proceedings — because New York State law doesn’t allow local cops to do so.
Adding insult to injury, the judge says the feds won’t have to chip in to pay off the hefty ruling — even though they’re the ones who wanted the migrants held in the first place. Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine says he’s shaking his head at a federal ruling that slams the county for honoring federal immigration holds.“This is one of those things that makes me shake my head,” Suffolk County Executive Ed Romaine said at a press conference Wednesday. “We have a lot of ways to spend $60 million — but it’s not paying back illegal immigrants, many of whom are here on criminal charges for violating our laws. “Taxpayers are liable for honoring Immigration and Customs Enforcement — ICE — who asked us to detain prisoners who were here unlawfully in the United States,” Romaine said. “We honored the requests of ICE and Homeland Security to detain these prisoners so they can be processed and, I assume, be deported by ICE,” the county executive said. “We are now being sued for detaining them at the request of the federal governmen
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