NASSAU COUNTY (WABC) -- Nassau County is on track to lock up 3,000 immigrants detained for ICE this year, as part of the county's agreement with Homeland Security.

The county has held 2,188 detainees so far, and continues to hold arrested immigrants for ICE for detainment, breaking with New York City, which considers itself a sanctuary city.

The Department of Homeland Security confirmed that Nassau has been holding several hundred ICE detainees per month as part of an agreement called "287(g)," that ICE struck in February with Nassau County to rent out 50 local jail cells in East Meadow through the Sheriff's Department.

The agreement also calls for the county to assign up to 10 Nassau County police detectives to cross embed with ICE agents, giving them the power to arrest immigrants wi

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