Masked ICE arrests, deportations on Long Island an elusive mission – Newsday

📅 Published: August 19, 2025

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Even for the Long Islanders who feel that anyone here illegally should be deported regardless of their circumstances, the tactics should give pause.

Ordinarily, local police agencies patrol and respond to calls with their marked cars, name tags, and precinct pins.

Court proceedings, predictably, follow.

But nowadays, communities where immigrants work and live face an unfamiliar wave of furtive and faceless federal interventions.

ICE operations grab individuals from streets, workplaces, private residences, courthouses and even immigration offices — when they are complying with required regular check-ins.

They are sent to crowded detention centers and then deported.

It takes families and lawyers days, if not weeks, to learn their status and whereabouts and to make contact.

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The White House is in a mad rush to deport people in record numbers.

But even for the most violent and dangerous — who nearly everyone agrees need to be removed — the process seems haphazard and chaotic.

In March, Trump aide Stephen Miller announced a goal of 3,000 ICE arrests per day.