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The Trump administration was preparing on Wednesday to send scores of law enforcement personnel to the San Francisco Bay Area for a large-scale immigration enforcement operation, prompting outrage from local politicians.

Details of the Mission

Information of the operation were continuing to unfold, but it will reportedly involve approximately 100+ federal agents, as reported. The officers are expected to begin utilizing the Coast Guard facility in across the bay, across the bay from San Francisco. It remained unclear whether state soldiers would join the operation.

Official Response

The operation comes after months of warnings by Donald Trump to target the progressive municipality. California’s governor Gavin Newsom criticized the decision, labeling it “taken directly from the dictator’s handbook”.

“He sends out unidentified officers, he deploys border agents, he dispatches ICE, he generates concern and apprehension in the population so that he can take credit for handling that by dispatching the military forces,” he declared. “This mirrors the firestarter putting out the blaze.”

Municipal Planning

San Francisco is the newest major city focused on by the federal effort of mass immigration arrests. The deployment is expected to trigger a confrontation between the White House and municipal authorities who have committed to prevent militarized immigration enforcement in the city.

San Franciscans have been preparing for an extended period for Trump to make good on repeated threats to dispatch personnel to the city. At a Wednesday public announcement, San Francisco’s municipal chief emphasized that the city was prepared.

“For months, we have been expecting the possibility of an impending government operation in our city,” declared the leader, explaining that he had implemented additional measures on Wednesday to “bolster the city’s assistance to our newcomer populations, and make certain our offices are coordinated prior to any government operation.”

Constitutional Background

In spite of judicial disputes to deployments in a number of cities, including Chicago, the Pacific Northwest and Southern California, Trump has asserted “absolute authority” to dispatch the state troops in cities, pointing to the federal statute which allows presidents limited power to deploy troops on US soil.

Community Preparation

The governor, who once held office as San Francisco’s city leader – had committed to intervene “without delay” to a operation in the city. “The idea that the federal government can dispatch personnel into our cities with no valid reason grounded in reality, no supervision, no answerability, disregard for regional control – it’s a direct assault on the legal system,” he said on Wednesday.

Public associations, including civil rights groups formed in the previous presidential term, have prepared to rapidly assemble a mass rally in the city, as well as peaceful assemblies at public spaces.

Community Effect

In San Francisco’s Mission district, a largely Hispanic population, elected official stated to media last week she and her voters had been bracing for this moment. “The time that employees avoid workplaces, when people of color are afraid to go outdoors without the concern of national personnel racially profiling and arresting them, the moment when students avoid classrooms, grow too frightened to go to the food market or medical provider,” she said. “What we have been preparing for in the Mission is fundamentally a halt the extent of which we haven’t seen since the pandemic.”

National Guard Condition

Approximately three hundred out of several thousand regional state soldiers stay under federal control under an directive from Trump. Roughly several hundred of them had been dispatched to Oregon, where they were staying in standby during a judicial dispute over their mission.

This week, Newsom said he had called the California national guard troops under his command to manage charity kitchens during the administrative stoppage.