🔗 Share this article Trump Administration Poised to Dispatch Dozens Law Enforcement to the Bay Area The White House was preparing on Wednesday to deploy scores of law enforcement personnel to the northern California for a large-scale border security initiative, sparking outrage from state officials. Specifics of the Deployment Specifics of the mission were gradually becoming clear, but it will reportedly involve more than 100 federal agents, according to reports. The officers are scheduled to begin occupying the US Coast Guard base in the East Bay, opposite San Francisco. It remained unclear whether national guard troops would join the operation. Official Backlash The deployment comes after months of warnings by the administration to target the liberal city. Governor Gavin Newsom condemned the decision, calling it “right out of the dictator’s handbook”. “He sends out unidentified officers, he dispatches border agents, he dispatches federal agents, he creates worry and terror in the population so that he can claim credit for addressing that by dispatching the national guard,” he declared. “This is exactly like the incendiary fighting the inferno.” City Planning San Francisco is the latest major city focused on by the administration's initiative of mass immigration arrests. The operation is likely to cause a showdown between the White House and city officials who have committed to block paramilitary operations in the city. San Franciscans have been preparing for an extended period for Trump to make good on frequent statements to send troops to the city. At a Wednesday media briefing, San Francisco’s city leader stated again that the city was ready. “During this period, we have been expecting the chance of a potential federal deployment in our city,” declared the leader, adding that he had implemented additional measures on Wednesday to “bolster the city’s support for our newcomer populations, and ensure our offices are coordinated ahead of any government operation.” Constitutional Context In spite of legal challenges to operations in a multiple urban areas, including Chicago, Oregon and Southern California, Trump has declared “unquestioned power” to send the national guard in cities, referencing the presidential authority which enables presidents certain rights to send forces on US soil. Public Response Newsom – who was formerly as San Francisco’s city leader – had vowed to take action “without delay” to a deployment in the city. “The concept that the federal government can send forces into our cities with no legitimate cause grounded in reality, no monitoring, no responsibility, disregard for state sovereignty – it constitutes an attack on the judicial framework,” he said on Wednesday. Public associations, including social justice nonprofits formed in the initial federal leadership, have prepared to rapidly assemble a public demonstration in the city, as well as peaceful assemblies at community centers. Neighborhood Consequences In San Francisco’s Mission area, a predominantly Latino population, city supervisor informed journalists last week she and her residents had been preparing for this situation. “The moment that people stop going to work, when anyone Black or brown cannot move about freely without the concern of government officers targeting based on race and detaining them, the time when parents stop sending kids to school, are too scared to go to the grocery store or physician,” she said. “Our ongoing preparations in the Mission is essentially a shutdown the scale of which we have not witnessed since the health crisis.” Military Condition About several hundred out of several thousand state military personnel continue under national command under an order from Trump. Roughly 200 of them had been transferred to the Pacific Northwest, where they were remaining in uncertainty in the midst of a judicial dispute over their mission. This time, Newsom said he had called the California national guard troops under his authority to staff charity kitchens throughout the federal closure.