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  • Why ICE detainees are being held at East Meadow’s county jail

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📰 News we're reading

• Great Neck resident detained by ICE (longislandpress.com) — Hundreds of ICE detainees, including a Great Neck father, have recently been held at the Nassau County Correctional Center in East Meadow under a county agreement with federal authorities. His family, now without their primary earner, is fundraising and preparing for a Manhattan court hearing where his attorney will seek his release and challenge deportation proceedings.
   

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