Suffolk County taxpayers could be on the hook for $60 million in a migrant class-action lawsuit for holding on to illegal immigrants until the feds could show up and ship them out of the country, officials said Wednesday.
A federal judge ruled that the sheriff’s office in the Long Island county acted on its own when it held undocumented immigrants for deportation proceedings — because New York State law doesn’t allow local cops to do so.
Adding insult to injury, the judge says the feds won’t have to chip in to pay off the hefty ruling — even though they’re the ones who wanted the migrants held in the first place.
