A Southern California county will stop letting federal immigration authorities train at a local firing range over concerns about the Trump administration’s violent crackdown on immigrants.
\n\nSan Diego County supervisors voted 3-2 on Tuesday to end contracts with Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Customs and Border Protection to train at a county-owned facility near the Mexican border and a Navy facility leased by the county. The agencies that conduct immigration enforcement and run customs and immigration checks on the busy U.S.-Mexico border have had contracts for years to train at the facilities.
\n\n“Federal immigration agents have harmed our communities many different ways here locally and throughout the nation,” said Monica Montgomery Steppe, one of the supervisors who voted to end the contracts. “We just don’t want to be complicit in that.”
\n\nThe vote comes after residents clamored for the county of more than 3 million people on the U.S.-Mexico border to end the contracts. They said it would be a way to stop helping the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign that has split up families and led to deadly clashes between federal agents and residents in communities from Minnesota to Maine.
\n\nOther communities including the nearby city of Escondido and…
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