County Adopts Bay Area's First 'ICE Free' Zone: Report

SANTA CLARA COUNTY, CA — Supervisors in Santa Clara County have passed a local law that will ban federal immigration officers from conducting raids on municipal property.

It is likely the Bay Area's first official "ICE-free zone." It passed with unanimous consent, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

The new ordinance will only inhibit federal officers from making arrests if they don't have a judicial warrant or court order. It could also make it harder for agents to find a place to stage operations.

Agents will be restricted from using county-owned or controlled property like parking lots, garages or vacant lots to set up operations.

The Trump administration has notably deployed federal agents to Democratic-led communities.

“We have no responsibility to the federal government's ICE department to facilitate their work for them for so many different reasons,” Santa Clara County Supervisor Sylvia Arenas told the San Francisco Chronicle.

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