"Santa Clara County leaders will establish ICE-free zones throughout Silicon Valley - raising physical barriers and locking gates to prevent federal immigration agents from unlawfully using county properties for surveillance and arrests. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to follow Chicago's lead and create an inventory of vacant lots, garages and other county-owned spaces federal authorities might use for immigration enforcement without court orders."
"Meanwhile, Santa Clara County leaders have refined and expanded a three-stage plan to coordinate a counter-response to ICE raids. The plan received preliminary approval last month. It will escalate the county's responses based on the scale of local ICE activity - be it targeted arrests or raids on schools or grocery stores - to provide legal aid, family shelter, food, child care, health services and communication to residents."
Santa Clara County will establish ICE-free zones across Silicon Valley by raising physical barriers, locking gates and preventing federal immigration agents from using county properties for surveillance and arrests. The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously to inventory vacant lots, garages and other county-owned spaces that federal authorities might use without court orders and to create signs warning ICE agents away from those properties and for residents to use on private property. District 1 Supervisor Sylvia Arenas led the proposal. County leaders refined a three-stage counter-response plan to escalate legal aid, shelter, food, child care, health services and communication based on ICE activity. San Jose officials pursue a similar policy.
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