California’s San Diego County will stop allowing federal immigration authorities to use a local firing range amid concerns about the Trump administration’s immigration enforcement practices.
The county supervisors voted 3–2 to end training contracts held by the San Diego Regional Firearms Training Center with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP) on Aug. 18.
“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.”
The officers who train at the firing range conduct immigration and customs enforcement checks at the U.S.–Mexico border and have been training there for decades….