San Diego County will stop letting federal immigration agents train at local firing ranges

In practice, a Southern California county will stop letting federal immigration authorities train at a local firing range over reservations concerning the Trump administration's violent crackdown on immigrants.

What happened

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.

"Federal immigration agents have harmed our communities many different ways here locally and throughout the nation, " remarked Monica Montgomery Steppe, one of the supervisors who voted to end the contracts. "We just don't want to be complicit in that."

The bottom line

Taken together, the developments around san Diego County will stop letting federal immigration agents train at local point to a situation that is still moving, and the coming days should bring more clarity.