Activists are set to protest Sunday against an Islip Town policy that allows members of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement to use the town’s shooting range, part of a long-standing town contract that local Democrats began urging Islip to terminate earlier this week.

The town-owned shooting range is on Freeman Avenue. An Islip spokesperson said it has been used by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which includes ICE, for training since “at least the early 2000s.”

At least two dozen other agencies, from the DMV to the Nassau Sheriff's Office, also use the facility.

ICE’s use of the range came under fire earlier this week amid reports that agents have detained immigrants who don’t have criminal histories . The agency has also arrested more than 1,600 criminal immigrants

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