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The federal government on Monday said it paused construction of U.S. Immigration and Customs detention facility near Gilroy, in a deal with Santa Clara County and the State of California.<\/p>\n

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ICE and its umbrella agency the U.S. Department of Homeland Security have declined to officially acknowledge the project, which was revealed through news reports based on federal property-procurement documents. The agreement to pause construction, filed Monday in federal court in San Jose, did not contain any acknowledgment from the federal government that the site would be used as a detention center.<\/p>\n

The construction pause came amid a lawsuit against ICE by the county and state over the project, and a court motion in that case by the county and state seeking a temporary injunction halting the project.<\/p>\n

In a joint agreement presented Monday to the federal court in San Jose, the county and state, and ICE, said ICE \u201cvoluntarily paused construction and development activities\u201d at the site on Santa Clara County land just east of Highway 101 and north of Highway 152.<\/p>\n

Just before 5 p.m. Monday, a judge approved the deal.<\/p>\n

ICE agreed to maintain the pause until Sept. 9.<\/p>\n

The court filing Monday described ICE\u2019s temporary stop to construction as a \u201ccompromise.\u201d ICE said it needed more time to address the 289-page lawsuit and the 807 pages of the injunction request. The county and state agreed to give ICE an extra five weeks to respond to the lawsuit, and an extra month to respond to the motion for an injunction.<\/p>\n

ICE\u2019s response to the lawsuit was due Aug. 24, and its response to the motion for the injunction was due July 13.<\/p>\n

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Under the new schedule, ICE must respond to the lawsuit by Sept. 30, and to the injunction motion by Aug. 12.<\/p>\n

County officials have said the planned facility is designed to hold up to 150 people.<\/p>\n

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The county and state sued ICE on June 10 over the planned facility, and filed the motion for a temporary injunction June 24.<\/p>\n

The agreement asked the court to schedule a hearing on the injunction request after Aug. 26 and before Sept. 9. Judge Eumi Lee on Monday evening set it for Sept. 8 at 2 p.m.<\/p>\n

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ICE has said, as recently as late May, that it \u201ccurrently has no plans for a detention center in Gilroy.\u201d<\/p>\n

The state and county lawsuit alleges the facility would violate federal environmental laws because the government failed to produce an environmental assessment or impact statement before entering the lease and starting construction. It also claims the project would run afoul of federal immigration law because it is planned for land zoned exclusively for agricultural use, near habitat for several endangered and threatened species.<\/p>\n

The lawsuit also targets what state and county officials described as the secrecy surrounding the project, accusing the Trump administration of violating the Intergovernmental Cooperation Act by moving ahead without giving the state or county a meaningful opportunity to weigh in.<\/p>\n

The case may turn partly on who would operate the facility. Legal experts have said the Constitution\u2019s supremacy clause gives the federal government broad power to override state and local opposition when it runs a facility directly. But if the facility is privately run, the county and state may have more room to challenge the project through zoning, environmental and other local laws.<\/p>\n

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