Santa Clara County / Cara Nguyen

Today, Santa Clara County’s Board of Supervisors unanimously voted to begin planning to use county staff and services to respond to ICE raids.

Supervisor Betty Duong and Vice President Sylvia Arenas co-authored the legislation.

“It is our responsibility as elected servants, as public servants, to ensure the safety of everyone in our community, no matter what the status, no matter who they are,” says Supervisor Duong.

They said that together, they’ll create a plan to sustain and expand immigration legal services, establish an emergency reserve, and figure out a way to pay for it.

More than 40 percent of Santa Clara County residents are immigrants. Almost 20 percent of those residents are undocumented.

Since last year, Santa Clara County has pledged

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