Gilroy extiende la prohibición temporal de proyectos de centros de detención.

With time waning on a moratorium to prevent detention centers from being built in the city, Gilroy officials have extended the pause for more than 10 months.

The City Council on Monday unanimously approved extending the temporary ban, approved in October, for another 10 months and 15 days. The moratorium gives city staff time to review, study and propose a more permanent change to the city zoning regarding detention centers.

The decision, which prohibits new detention facility projects on public- and private-owned property, aligns with the city’s oposición a la parte superior Instalación planificada del Servicio de Inmigración y Control de Aduanas de los Estados Unidos (ICE) En Holsclaw Road. Funcionarios de San José aprobó una moratoria similar en septiembre.

Mayor Greg Bozzo said the review and development of appropriate standards require more time than the initial 45-day moratorium allows. The extension gives the city the necessary time to evaluate potential impacts and develop standards that reflect Gilroy’s needs and long-term goals.

“These decisions deserve thoughtful consideration, including how such facilities could affect public services, neighborhood safety and our community’s economic vitality,” Bozzo told San José Spotlight. “The moratorium gives us time to listen to residents and take meaningful steps, within the city’s authority, to move forward.”

The council meeting was lightly attended, despite the serious concerns many residents conveyed when officials approved the initial 45-day moratorium last month. Just one person spoke during public comment, and said the council should extend the pause. The city has the ability to extend it one more time, for an additional year, at the end of the latest 10-month extension.

“Obviously I think you should pass this (extension),” Ashley Antonich Sarabia, a San Jose resident who has spoken out against the planned ICE facility outside city limits, told councilmembers at the meeting. “It’s needed. It’s necessary. Keep your community safe. You owe it to all of us to keep us safe.”

El movimiento en contra de las instalaciones de ICE propuestas al este de Gilroy ha ido cobrando fuerza, con el apoyo de funcionarios del condado de Santa Clara y del estado. presentar una demanda en junio to halt it. A federal judge in September granted a interdicto preliminar bloquear la construcción de las instalaciones mientras se desarrolla la batalla legal de mayor envergadura.

Según funcionarios del condado que han revisado los planes del gobierno federal, el espacio de detención en las instalaciones proyectadas por el ICE sería lo suficientemente grande como para albergar a más de 100 personas. Revelaciones sobre las instalacionesSegún informó inicialmente San José Spotlight mayo, have stoked fears that President Donald Trump’s administration is laying the groundwork for more expansive operaciones de control de inmigración en el área de la bahía.

As originally written, the moratorium would have carved out detention facilities from other law enforcement agencies. At a previous meeting, Councilmember Terence Fugazzi amended it to strike that carve out, which the council approved.

“This strengthens the legality by reducing the chance that this could be seen as unfairly discriminatory should ICE choose to legally oppose (the ban),” Fugazzi previously told San José Spotlight.

The council stopped short of prohibiting the use of city property as a staging area, processing location or operations base for immigration enforcement activity, with councilmembers saying it was merely a symbolic move. Police Chief Brandon Sanchez said whether staging areas are prohibited or not, the Gilroy Police Department will seek cooperation with federal agents.

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