Santa Clara County Mobilizes $13M, Staff Shifts To Coordinate Regional Response Against ICE Raids

Santa Clara County supervisors propose shifting county personnel and forming a county-coordinated regional response to ICE raids, backed by roughly $13 million already invested in deportation legal defense and the Rapid Response Network. The plan would fund attorneys to observe raids, provide legal assistance, and develop shared regional protocols while balancing fiscal constraints and concerns about federal pushback. Officials say the effort is part of a broader mobilization of rapid-response networks across California.