Elected leaders in Monterey County have taken the first step to thwart any effort to bring federal immigration centers to the county by altering land use policies to deter them from being built locally.
The Monterey County Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution Tuesday expressing opposition to what many local officials believe is a planned immigrant detention center in Santa Clara County that Board members said would create fear in neighboring Monterey County.
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