Gilroy, Morgan Hill decline to join lawsuit over planned Santa Clara County ICE facility

ADVOCATES CAMPAIGNING AGAINST a planned ICE facility in South County are expressing disappointment after two nearby cities decided not to throw their support behind a lawsuit challenging the project.

Multiple city and county governments across the Bay Area and beyond have signed onto an amicus brief in support of the case filed last month by Santa Clara County and California Attorney General Rob Bonta. But two notable exceptions have raised eyebrows — Gilroy and Morgan Hill, which are just down the road from the 7240 Holsclaw Road site, where work on a 20,000 square-foot facility with detention space for undocumented immigrants appears to already be underway.