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The City of Glendale, located in Los Angeles County, announced it was ending its agreement with US Homeland Security and US Immigration and Customs Enforcement to house immigration detainees at the local police facility, the city said in a news release Sunday.

The city says it’s maintained the facility since 2007, where it has given “basic dignities to those temporarily held” and offered access to local families.

“Nevertheless, despite the transparency and safeguards the City has upheld, the City recognizes that public perception of the ICE contract—no matter how limited or carefully managed, no matter the good—has become divisive,” the city said in a statement. “And while opinions on this issue may vary—the decision to terminate this contract is not politically driven. It is rooted in what this City stands for—public safety, local accountability, and trust.”

The city emphasized that it doesn’t enforce immigration law and doesn’t engage with immigration enforcement.

DHS responded to the announcement on X, saying ”Glendale’s politicians stand with criminal illegal aliens, including gang members, rapists, and murderers over American citizens.”

“It is deeply disturbing that sanctuary politicians in Glendale, California, would terminate an agreement to hold ICE detainees and violent criminals — which the city has had with DHS for more than 15 years — just as violent rioters are looting and defacing Los Angeles and assaulting federal law enforcement,” DHS wrote, and added a direct message from Secretary Kristi Noem: “You will not stop us or slow us down.”