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.
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