Otay Mesa, San Diego

San Diego County's Board of Supervisors voted 3-2 along party lines to end agreements allowing ICE and CBP to train at the county-owned San Diego Regional Firearms Training Center in Otay Mesa. Supervisors Paloma Aguirre, Terra Lawson-Remer and Monica Montgomery Steppe backed the move, citing eroded community trust amid the Trump administration's immigration crackdown; the agenda item cited more than 16,000 removals from the county since January 2025 and at least 41 shootings involving federal immigration agents, with 11 fatalities.

Sheriff Kelly Martinez, who supports removing ICE, said she will still let CBP use the range, arguing its border and airport operations differ from ICE's enforcement mission and that cutting access would worsen wait times at ports of entry. CBP, the Sheriff's Department and the local chamber of commerce warned of economic fallout, while the supervisors who authored the motion countered that border delays are a federal responsibility, not a reason to keep training agents linked to the deportation campaign. The agreements, dating to 2021 and worth roughly $10,000 (ICE) and $117,000 (CBP) annually, only became public after a local news investigation. A similar dispute in Escondido ended with that city keeping ICE's access.