{"id":56549,"date":"2025-05-08T09:30:12","date_gmt":"2025-05-08T16:30:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/santa-clara-county-leaf-blower-ban-dropped-over-ice-fears\/"},"modified":"2025-05-08T09:30:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T16:30:12","slug":"santa-clara-county-leaf-blower-ban-dropped-over-ice-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/santa-clara-county-leaf-blower-ban-dropped-over-ice-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Santa Clara County leaf blower ban dropped over ICE fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A discussion among Santa Clara County supervisors on everyday gardening tools this week morphed into concerns about immigration witch hunts. The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously axed Board President Otto Lee\u2019s proposal for banning the use of gas-powered leaf blowers in unincorporated neighborhoods. Other supervisors worried the law would send a message encouraging residents \u2014 annoyed by the noisy equipment \u2014 to call the police or U.S. Immigration Customs and Enforcement (ICE) on laborers who might be undocumented immigrants. District 1 Supervisor Sylvia Arenas was the first to push back. \u201cI just don\u2019t want it to be a reason&hellip;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sanjosespotlight.com\/santa-clara-county-leaf-blower-ban-dropped-over-ice-fears\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a>@San Jose Spotlight<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A discussion among Santa Clara County supervisors on everyday gardening tools this week morphed into concerns about immigration witch hunts. The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously axed Board President Otto Lee\u2019s proposal for banning the use of gas-powered leaf blowers in unincorporated neighborhoods. Other supervisors worried the law would send a message encouraging residents &hellip;<\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":56550,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,254],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-56549","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56549"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56549\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56549"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vietvalley.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}