New York's deadline for local police departments to sever so-called 287(g) partnerships with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement arrived Tuesday, and by nightfall only one Long Island jurisdiction remained genuinely unresolved: Nassau County. Some early accounts had pointed instead to sheriffs in Madison and Steuben counties as Long Island's holdouts. Neither claim survives a map check: Madison sits in central New York near Syracuse, and Steuben is in the Southern Tier near the Pennsylvania border — both roughly 200 miles from the nearest Long Island beach. Both sheriffs also confirmed to local reporters that they'd shut down their ICE agreements before the deadline, even while objecting loudly to being told to. The real fight over Long Island's ICE ties is unfolding in Nassau, and it's now tangled up with a governor's race, a federal court ruling, and two upstate counties suing to keep their own partnerships alive.
