🔗 Share this article Federal Government Prepared to Dispatch Scores Federal Agents to the Bay Area The Trump administration was preparing on Wednesday to send numerous of law enforcement personnel to the Bay Area region for a significant border security initiative, prompting outrage from California leaders. Information of the Deployment Information of the deployment were still emerging, but it will reportedly include more than 100 law enforcement personnel, as reported. The agents are expected to begin occupying the US Coast Guard base in Alameda, across the bay from San Francisco. It was still uncertain whether national guard troops would participate. Government Response The operation comes after weeks of statements by Donald Trump to take action against the Democratic-run city. California’s governor Gavin Newsom condemned the action, labeling it “taken directly from the autocrat's manual”. “He deploys masked men, he sends out Border Patrol, he dispatches immigration officials, he creates worry and terror in the neighborhood so that he can claim credit for solving that by deploying the military forces,” the governor stated. “This is no different than the incendiary putting out the blaze.” City Planning San Francisco is the newest major city focused on by Donald Trump’s campaign of widespread apprehensions. The deployment is anticipated to provoke a standoff between the federal government and municipal authorities who have committed to prevent militarized immigration enforcement in the city. San Franciscans have been readying for weeks for Trump to fulfill frequent statements to dispatch personnel to the city. At a Wednesday media briefing, San Francisco’s mayor stated again that the city was equipped. “For months, we have been expecting the possibility of a potential government operation in our city,” said the mayor, adding that he had implemented additional measures on Wednesday to “enhance the city’s assistance to our foreign-born residents, and make certain our agencies are organized before any national intervention.” Judicial Background In spite of legal challenges to deployments in a multiple urban areas, including the Windy City, Portland and Los Angeles, Trump has claimed “complete control” to send the state troops in cities, referencing the federal statute which enables presidents limited power to deploy troops on US soil. Community Response The governor, who once held office as San Francisco’s chief executive – had pledged to take action “without delay” to a deployment in the city. “The notion that the federal government can deploy troops into our cities with no legitimate cause grounded in reality, no supervision, no accountability, no consideration of local authority – it represents an infringement on the judicial framework,” he said on Wednesday. Local organizations, including civil rights groups created during the first Trump administration, have prepared to rapidly assemble a public demonstration in the city, as well as peaceful assemblies at community centers. Community Impact In San Francisco’s Mission area, a largely Hispanic neighborhood, local representative told reporters last week she and her constituents had been anticipating this moment. “The time that employees avoid workplaces, when minority individuals cannot move about freely without the concern of national personnel targeting based on race and detaining them, the time when parents stop sending kids to school, are too scared to go to the supermarket or medical provider,” she said. “What we have been preparing for in the Mission is essentially a shutdown the likes of which we have not experienced since the pandemic.” State Troops Condition About three hundred out of 4,000 California state soldiers stay under federal control under an directive from Trump. Roughly 200 of them had been sent to the neighboring state, where they were staying in standby during a legal battle over their mission. This week, Newsom said he had requested the local soldiers under his authority to manage food banks during the government shutdown.