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Wealthy East Hampton residents assured police will not deport maids, landscapers and nannies

February 7, 2025 | | Print Article

The uber-wealthy residents of East Hampton Town and Village, both leftist neighborhoods, are reportedly desperate to retain their illegal alien servants amid the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown.

So much so that East Hampton Town supervisor Kathee Burke-Gonzalez announced during a public hearing Tuesday that she’s looking to hire an immigration attorney for the city and meet up with illegal alien advocacy groups, according to The East Hampton Star.

East Hampton Town Police Chief Michael Sarlo likewise reassured locals by stressing that his officers aren’t and don’t intend to act like Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents and that they only work with ICE regarding criminal matters.

“Our level of participation and cooperation with ICE lies in criminal matters,” he said. “If there’s a signed warrant by a judge on criminal matters, we have a duty to honor and support their efforts to ensure that the warrant is served properly.”

“We want to make it very clear that victims of crimes, or those involved in a report made to the Police Department, if you need an ambulance or if you want to report something that happens in your home, we do not ask, we’re not allowed to ask, anyone’s citizenship status,” he added.

Sarlo, who appears to be a softy, reportedly got a bit emotional when a local resident asked him if he could stop a deportation from occurring.

“You see what I’m wearing here,” he said, pointing to his uniform. “People who wear this and put this on don’t interfere with other people who wear this and put this on because then people die.”

“You don’t step in front of an Immigration Enforcement officer in uniform with a gun and a badge who’s taking his action. That’s for attorneys to get involved in and that is for policies and procedures through the state to get involved,” he added.

During another meeting later that day, East Hampton Village Mayor Jerry Larsen and East Hampton Village Police Chief Jeffrey Erickson made similar remarks to their equally wealthy constituents.

Asked whether he and his team would detain someone for ICE, Erickson basically claimed that the answer is no.

“If it is an ICE detainer or an administrative warrant, we do not have the authority, we will not hold them,” he said.

The East Hampton’s soft, leftist approach to illegal immigration contrasts sharply with the methodology being applied over in nearby Nassau County, where county executive Bruce Blakeman has reportedly given 10 local detectives the authority to work directly with ICE agents.

“Our detectives will arrest illegal immigrants engaged in criminal activity,” Blakeman later told the New York Post. “We want to make sure these people are locked up and deported. We don’t want illegal immigrants roaming around our community committing crimes. We don’t want them in our community.”

Blakeman faces opposition from They See Blue NY, a local group of South Asian leftists.

“Blakeman’s pledge of full cooperation between the Nassau County Police Department and ICE heads us down a slippery slope,” they said in a statement. “Of course we want safer, crime-free streets, but we must be aware of ICE’s past history in Nassau County, a history of overstepping and terrorizing residents.”

During the East Hampton Village meeting Tuesday, officials reportedly handed out pamphlets explaining their and their illegal servants’ alleged constitutional rights.

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