""Property built and maintained by the people should only be used by city or county purposes," San Jose Councilmember Peter Ortiz said."
""Let us be clear, ICE is not welcome on our county facilities and controlled lands," Santa Clara County Supervisor Sylvia Arenas said. "These lands serve critical needs for our community and immigration enforcement is not one of them.""
""What we see is an over-extension of the federal law whether it's National Guard commandeering parks or commandeering sites and ICE doing it - that's what we're seeing in Chicago," Ortiz said. "So, we're trying to take what we learned from cities who are already dealing with it and preparing our city for the situation in which it happens.""
Federal threats of immigration enforcement by the National Guard in San Francisco caused widespread fear across the Bay Area, prompting businesses to close and people to avoid work, school, and normal community activities. The City of San Jose and County of Santa Clara proposed legal measures to bar immigration operations on city and county-owned land, protecting parks, parking lots, and public properties from use as staging grounds without an official warrant. The measures will rely on legal challenges rather than physical policing. Santa Clara County passed its proposal; San Jose planned further discussion and introduction of legislation.
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