U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Nassau authorities have held 2,188 ICE detainees in an East Meadow jail since February, data obtained by Newsday shows.

Nassau has been holding several hundred ICE detainees per month as part of an agreement ICE struck in February with Nassau County, which has rented out 50 local jail cells in East Meadow. Newsday reported over the summer that some 1,400 detainees had been processed and held at the facility since the start of the deal.

As part of the deal, Nassau County Executive Bruce Blakeman also assigned 10 Nassau police detectives to cross-embed with ICE, which gave them the power to arrest immigrants without legal status.

But Blakeman revealed Monday that while those 10 detectives have been trained by ICE, they have not been deploye

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