filed suit<\/a> seeking to stop the project, arguing it violates state law. A hearing on a request for a preliminary injunction, originally expected later this year, has been moved up to September, said Rebeca Amend\u00e1riz, a community organizer with the ICE Out of Gateway Coalition.<\/p>\nWhile no injunction has been issued, Amend\u00e1riz said the parties have agreed to temporarily halt construction until the federal government files its legal response.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe didn\u2019t get an injunction, but I\u2019ll take it as a temporary win to halt that construction,\u201d she said. \u201cWe really do see it as a sign of something good to come.\u201d<\/p>\n
The proposed facility on Holsclaw Road has sparked protests since plans became public earlier this year. Opponents say it would expand immigration enforcement in the region and increase fear in immigrant communities stretching from the Central Coast to the Bay Area.<\/p>\n
ICE has previously disputed claims that the project is a detention center, telling this newspaper it is intended to serve as office space rather than a long-term detention facility.<\/p>\n
Amend\u00e1riz, however, said blueprints obtained by opponents indicate the building is designed as a processing center where people arrested by ICE would be temporarily held before being transferred elsewhere.<\/p>\n
According to Amend\u00e1riz, the plans include space to hold up to 150 people for as long as two days, along with training areas and weapons storage.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis isn\u2019t some benign administrative office,\u201d she said. \u201cIt\u2019s somewhere where people will be held, processed and transferred out.\u201d<\/p>\n
She said individuals brought to the facility could later be transferred to detention centers in California\u2019s Central Valley or other ICE facilities if additional detention capacity becomes available.<\/p>\n
Amend\u00e1riz also said opposition to the project continues to grow, with multiple cities joining an amicus brief supporting the lawsuit and numerous environmental, immigration and social justice organizations backing the effort.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe community is not happy about this\u2014not from the Central Coast to the Bay Area,\u201d she said. \u201cWe\u2019re going to continue to organize. We have a number of protests this weekend, next week and the following week, and there will continue to be because this doesn\u2019t belong here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Holsclaw Road,<\/a> named after Gilroy’s first blacksmith, played a rich part in the early history of the area.<\/p>\nICE did not respond to requests for comment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Construction on a proposed U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement processing facility in Gilroy has been temporarily paused while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":402628,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[161563,9778,84181,187,132800,2871,161564,88,90,89],"class_list":["post-402627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-jose","tag-affordable-housing-network-of-santa-clara-county","tag-attorney-general-rob-bonta","tag-detention-center","tag-gilroy","tag-holsclaw-road","tag-ice","tag-ice-out-of-gateway-coalition","tag-san-jose","tag-san-jose-headlines","tag-san-jose-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402627\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}