"We immediately reached out to the ICE facility office at the Bethpage facility, but shockingly, the phone number doesn't even work. It says that the number is disconnected. There is no public information about how to reach someone who is being detained at the Bethpage facility, Menin said. There's actually no way to reach out to this individual, and I just want to be clear, as Speaker of the City Council, I cannot even call this ICE detention center to collect information."
"A New York City Council worker was detained by ICE agents on Long Island on Monday, according to City Council Speaker Julie Menin. The unnamed staffer, a data analyst for the Council, was taken into custody during what was supposed to be a routine immigration hearing in Bethpage. According to Menin, the employee had been legally permitted to stay in the U.S. until this October."
"Screenshot via YouTube/@NYCcouncil Menin stated that she has since learned that the detained individual, who hails from Venezuela, has since been transferred to a detention center on Varick Street in Lower Manhattan. She also stressed that he was not only on a work visa, but also that he had never been arrested or convicted of a crime later in the year."
A New York City Council worker was detained by ICE agents on Long Island during a routine immigration hearing in Bethpage. The unnamed staffer is a data analyst who held legal permission to remain in the U.S. until October. The employee called City Council HR to report being detained. Initial attempts to contact the Bethpage ICE facility failed because the listed phone number was disconnected and no public contact information was available. The individual, a Venezuelan national on a work visa with no arrests or convictions, was transferred to a detention center on Varick Street in Lower Manhattan.
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