🔗 Share this article Federal Government Ready to Dispatch Scores Federal Agents to the Bay Area The federal government was preparing on Wednesday to send numerous of law enforcement personnel to the San Francisco Bay Area for a significant border security initiative, prompting criticism from California leaders. Details of the Mission Details of the mission were still emerging, but it will reportedly involve more than 100 federal agents, as reported. The personnel are scheduled to begin utilizing the US Coast Guard base in across the bay, facing San Francisco. It was not confirmed whether state soldiers would join the operation. Official Response The operation follows months of threats by Donald Trump to focus on the liberal city. The state's leader Gavin Newsom denounced the action, calling it “right out of the dictator’s handbook”. “He sends out masked men, he deploys border agents, he dispatches immigration officials, he instills anxiety and fear in the neighborhood so that he can lay claim for handling that by deploying the military forces,” Newsom said. “This is exactly like the incendiary extinguishing the blaze.” Local Readiness San Francisco is the newest large urban area singled out by the federal effort of large-scale detentions. The deployment is expected to trigger a confrontation between the federal government and municipal authorities who have vowed to block militarized immigration enforcement in the city. San Franciscans have been readying for weeks for Trump to make good on frequent statements to dispatch personnel to the city. At a Wednesday public announcement, San Francisco’s mayor stated again that the city was equipped. “Over recent weeks, we have been expecting the possibility of some kind of government operation in our city,” said the mayor, adding that he had enacted new policies on Wednesday to “strengthen the city’s assistance to our foreign-born residents, and make certain our offices are prepared prior to any government operation.” Constitutional Context In spite of court battles to operations in a number of cities, including Illinois, Portland and Southern California, Trump has claimed “complete control” to send the military forces in cities, citing the presidential authority which allows presidents certain rights to deploy troops on American territory. Local Response Newsom, who once held office as San Francisco’s chief executive – had pledged to intervene “immediately” to a deployment in the city. “The notion that the national administration can send forces into our cities with no justification supported by evidence, no oversight, no answerability, no consideration of state sovereignty – it constitutes an attack on the legal system,” he said on Wednesday. Public associations, including advocacy organizations formed in the initial federal leadership, have prepared to quickly mobilize a mass rally in the city, as well as vigils at local libraries. Community Impact In San Francisco’s Mission area, a predominantly Latino population, city supervisor told reporters last week she and her residents had been anticipating this moment. “The time that workers cease employment, when anyone Black or brown are afraid to go outdoors without the concern of government officers discriminating against and detaining them, the point when students avoid classrooms, grow too frightened to go to the supermarket or medical provider,” she said. “The readiness efforts in the Mission is basically a shutdown the scale of which we haven’t seen since Covid.” State Troops Situation Roughly several hundred out of four thousand regional state soldiers remain federalized under an directive from Trump. About several hundred of them had been transferred to the Pacific Northwest, where they were remaining in uncertainty amid a court case over their assignment. This week, Newsom said he had called the California national guard troops under his control to operate charity kitchens amid the government shutdown.