Judge Extends Temporary Halt On Construction Of Proposed ICE Facility Near Gilroy

CBS Bay Area

September 9, 2026

On Tuesday afternoon, a federal judge heard arguments in a lawsuit filed by the state and Santa Clara County against U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and the Department of Homeland Security, involving the proposed immigration enforcement facility near Gilroy.

"Today, the fight brings us to this courthouse, the people's house, where we are urging the judge to hold the federal government accountable to the law!" County Supervisor Betty Duong told a cheering crowd. "Santa Clara County is fighting today so that other Bay Area counties don't have to fight tomorrow!"

They met outside the Federal District Courthouse in San Jose, where Judge Eumi Lee would hear arguments in the case. But outside, the arguments were more emotional than legal. A group of protestors with Japanese ancestry compared ICE detention sites to the internment camps of the 1940s.

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