South Bay Leaders Aim to Create 'ICE-Free Zones' | KQED

"South Bay leaders this week are considering new laws aiming to prevent immigration agents and other federal authorities from using public facilities like parking garages for their operations. Ortiz is leading the call for the new policy in the city, which is modeled after the "ICE Free Zone" executive order issued by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson earlier this month. The local action comes just days after President Donald Trump said he is targeting San Francisco as the next city to deploy the National Guard."

"County Supervisor Sylvia Arenas, who is leading the county effort, said the region's elected officials are trying to use physical barriers and a patchwork of new laws to foil ongoing immigration enforcement tactics she described as "horrific." "It's a little bump in the road. But if that bump in the road distracts them and keeps some from coming to our community, I think that's helpful. So anything to irritate and to agitate those ICE agents, I think, is good," Arenas told KQED."

"The county policy would also call for signs to be posted on county properties, "declaring the restriction of immigration enforcement" there. The county would make similar signs available to private property and business owners for free if they want to display them. Ortiz recently spearheaded a new proposed policy in San José that would ban all law enforcement officers, including fed"

South Bay leaders are considering laws to prevent immigration agents and other federal authorities from using public facilities such as parking garages for operations. San José Councilmember Peter Ortiz is leading the city effort, modeled after the "ICE Free Zone" executive order issued by Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson. Local officials expect any National Guard deployment to target the broader Bay Area after President Donald Trump said he is targeting San Francisco. County Supervisor Sylvia Arenas is leading a county effort to use physical barriers and a patchwork of new laws to foil enforcement tactics she described as "horrific." The county plan calls for signs declaring restrictions on immigration enforcement on county properties and offers similar signs free to private owners.

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