🔗 Share this article Trump Administration Prepared to Send Dozens Government Officers to the Bay Area The Trump administration was preparing on Wednesday to deploy numerous of federal agents to the northern California for a significant immigration enforcement operation, triggering condemnation from state officials. Specifics of the Deployment Details of the deployment were continuing to unfold, but it will reportedly include more than 100 federal agents, as reported. The agents are scheduled to begin occupying the military installation in across the bay, facing San Francisco. It was still uncertain whether state soldiers would join the operation. Government Reaction The mission is the result of months of statements by Donald Trump to take action against the liberal city. The state's leader Gavin Newsom denounced the decision, describing it as “right out of the authoritarian playbook”. “He sends out covered agents, he dispatches border agents, he dispatches immigration officials, he creates worry and terror in the population so that he can lay claim for solving that by dispatching the national guard,” Newsom said. “This is exactly like the arsonist fighting the fire.” Municipal Readiness San Francisco is the newest metropolitan center targeted by the federal effort of mass immigration arrests. The operation is anticipated to provoke a showdown between the White House and municipal authorities who have pledged to stop armed border control in the city. San Franciscans have been gearing up for months for Trump to carry out frequent statements to dispatch personnel to the city. At a Wednesday media briefing, San Francisco’s municipal chief emphasized that the city was prepared. “For months, we have been anticipating the chance of an impending national intervention in our city,” said the mayor, noting that he had taken further executive actions on Wednesday to “bolster the city’s protection of our immigrant communities, and make certain our departments are coordinated ahead of any federal deployment.” Constitutional Context Despite legal challenges to operations in a multiple urban areas, including Chicago, the Pacific Northwest and Southern California, Trump has claimed “complete control” to send the national guard in cities, pointing to the Insurrection Act which permits presidents specific authority to deploy troops on American territory. Public Reaction The governor, who once held office as San Francisco’s city leader – had vowed to intervene “right away” to a operation in the city. “The idea that the federal government can send forces into our cities with no valid reason grounded in reality, no oversight, no answerability, no consideration of state sovereignty – it constitutes an attack on the rule of law,” he said on Wednesday. Local organizations, including social justice nonprofits formed in the first Trump administration, have organized to quickly mobilize a large protest in the city, as well as vigils at local libraries. Community Impact In San Francisco’s Mission district, a largely Hispanic community, city supervisor stated to media last week she and her residents had been bracing for this moment. “The time that workers cease employment, when anyone Black or brown are afraid to go outdoors without the concern of Trump’s federal agents racially profiling and detaining them, the moment when students avoid classrooms, grow too frightened to go to the grocery store or physician,” she said. “What we have been preparing for in the Mission is basically a closure the extent of which we haven’t seen since the pandemic.” National Guard Status About several hundred out of four thousand state military personnel remain federalized under an command from Trump. About several hundred of them had been transferred to Oregon, where they were staying in standby during a court case over their assignment. This week, Newsom said he had called the state military personnel under his authority to operate food banks amid the government shutdown.