Suffolk County in the news: Long Island serial killer Rex Heuermann case updates and local crime coverage tying the region to a nationwide ICE/policy debate. Heuermann, a Long Island architect, pled guilty in 2024 to multiple murders from the 1990s.
A coalition of states and the federal government are clashing over anti-ICE measures and undercover enforcement rules. New York’s budget package tightens cooperation with federal immigration authorities, while other states and the DOJ have filed lawsuits or threatened legal action to defend or contest these policies.