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A Southern California county will stop letting federal immigration authorities train at a local firing range over concerns about the Trump administration\u2019s violent crackdown on immigrants.<\/p>\n

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San 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.<\/p>\n

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\u201cFederal immigration agents have harmed our communities many different ways here locally and throughout the nation,\u201d said Monica Montgomery Steppe, one of the supervisors who voted to end the contracts. \u201cWe just don\u2019t want to be complicit in that.\u201d<\/p>\n

The 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\u2019s mass deportation campaign that has split up families and led to deadly clashes between federal agents and residents in communities from Minnesota to Maine.<\/p>\n

Other communities including the nearby city of Escondido and others in New York and Minnesota also have debated whether to let immigration agents use their firing ranges, but opted to keep contracts intact.<\/p>\n

Jim Desmond, a San Diego County supervisor who voted against the move, said law enforcement agencies should be working and training together and making agents travel farther to get training doesn\u2019t accomplish anything.<\/p>\n

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\u201cICE has overreached and overstepped, but how do you fix that? You fix it with more training,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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Rodney Scott, who heads Customs and Border Protection, said the agency relies on the county\u2019s firing range to train 1,700 officers. Without it, he said, he\u2019d send them elsewhere for mandatory firearms training, which will reduce local staffing and affect trade and travel across the U.S.-Mexico border.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is unprecedented for a local partner, such as the San Diego County Board of Supervisors, to knowingly undermine border security and put our communities at risk,\u201d Scott said in a statement.<\/p>\n

ICE did not return requests for comment.<\/p>\n

In San Diego, CBP has had an agreement to use the county\u2019s training center since 2017 and ICE has had one since 2021. Federal agents have logged more than 3,300 training hours at the center since 2024, according to a letter from supervisors who proposed ending the contracts.<\/p>\n

ICE also has had an agreement since 2022 to use a Navy-owned firing range that the county leases on Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, the letter said.<\/p>\n

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San Diego officials who voted to end the contracts said they want to keep the trust of the region\u2019s immigrant communities and have worked hard to distinguish local police from federal immigration agents. Advocates said the Trump administration has tasked other federal agencies to help carry out immigration enforcement and with authorities wearing masks and street clothing, it is challenging to know which agency they work for.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur community is a home, not a target,\u201d Terra Lawson-Remer, the board\u2019s chair, said this week. She was one of two supervisors who proposed ending the contracts. \u201cIf the Trump administration wants to spend billions on this law and deportation agenda, they can use their own federal resources to carry it out.\u201d<\/p>\n

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