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<\/p>\nResidents, elected officials and faith leaders spoke out against the planned ICE facility in Santa Clara County. <\/p>\n
Jul 29, 2026<\/p>\n
Updated 4:25 pm PT<\/p>\n
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Santa Clara County County Counsel Tony LoPresti addresses a crowd at the Santa Clara County Government Center in San Jos\u00e9 on May 14, 2026. The federal agency has not offered much detail about its facility, saying earlier this year it was planning an office at the location and that it would support its work in the state and country.\u00a0\u00a0(Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman\/KQED)<\/p>\n
A Japanese American-led coalition of residents, elected officials and faith leaders are speaking out against the Trump administration\u2019s deadly immigration enforcement campaign<\/a> and opposing a planned Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detention facility<\/a> in Santa Clara County.\u00a0<\/p>\n Members of the group said Wednesday the actions against immigrants and their families playing out in the nation today reflect the racist, white supremacist and unjust policies of the past, including when Japanese Americans were incarcerated based on their race during World War II.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you see your government begin to sort human beings into categories of who deserves rights and who doesn\u2019t, who gets due process and who doesn\u2019t, you do not stay quiet,\u201d Rev. John Oda of the Wesley United Methodist Church said at a rally in San Jos\u00e9\u2019s Japantown.<\/p>\n His uncle fought and died for the United States during the war, while his family was locked away at the Heart Mountain American concentration camp in Wyoming, Oda said.<\/p>\n \u201cYou especially do not stay quiet when you have been taught via painful history exactly where that road leads,\u201d he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n Susan Hayase helped advance the movement for redress and reparations for Japanese Americans in the 1970s and 1980s, and co-founded San Jose Nikkei Resisters, a social justice organization.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cOne of the things that former incarcerees like my parents\u2019 generation and older told us is that they wanted to make sure that it would never happen to anybody else. And we took that as kind of a mission statement, kind of a command that was so important to us,\u201d Hayase said in an interview.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n The groups were joined by elected officials from local, county, state and federal offices, including Rep. Zoe Lofgren, State Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas, Assemblymembers Ash Kalra and Patrick Ahrens, Santa Clara County Supervisor Betty Duong and San Jos\u00e9 City Councilmember Anthony Tordillos.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cICE is out of control. It needs to be rebuilt from top to bottom. We have dangerous, masked, armed men snatching people who\u2019ve lived here for years and disappearing them off the streets,\u201d Lofgren said.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAnd if that detention center is opened\u2026what it\u2019s going to mean is that those masked, armed, dangerous agents can fan out across Northern California and bring their reign of terror to our communities. We cannot allow that to happen,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n In recent court filings, ICE agreed to voluntarily hold off on further construction of the facility as part of a scheduling compromise with attorneys for Santa Clara County and the Attorney General\u2019s office.\u00a0<\/p>\n The county and the state are also asking a judge for a preliminary injunction to halt the project indefinitely while the long-term litigation plays out.\u00a0<\/p>\n The federal court hearing addressing the preliminary injunction is set for Sept. 8.\u00a0<\/p>\n Lofgren expressed hope the lawsuit will prevail, but added that \u201cwe need to stand ready to do what else is necessary should those efforts fail.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n Hayase said she is very hopeful rallies and community-led actions will make real change, and she hopes others are inspired to take up such work, even if they haven\u2019t been directly affected by the current policies.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cSometimes people get used to bad news, they become calloused. But I think deep down inside, nobody wants violations of human rights to be happening in the United States,\u201d she said.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cTo make this system work, everybody has to participate,\u201d she said. \u201cYou have to stand up for your own rights. But if you see somebody else\u2019s rights being violated you have to participate. And I think people aren\u2019t used to that, but I think they can get used to it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents, elected officials and faith leaders spoke out against the planned ICE facility in Santa Clara County. 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Karsen Fricke of San Jos\u00e9 said a planned ICE facility in Gilroy has him on edge in San Jos\u00e9 on May 14, 2026.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/RobBontaAP.jpg\")
California Attorney General Rob Bonta comments on the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling overturning a federal judge\u2019s limits on \u201croving patrols\u201d and enforcement stops by ICE agents in Southern California, during a news conference on Monday, Sept. 8, 2025.<\/p>\n![\"A](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/GettyImages-1330932126-scaled-e1643861298742.jpg\")
U.S. Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-San Jose) questions witnesses during a hearing by the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol on July 27, 2021, at the Cannon House Office Building in Washington, D.C. <\/p>\n