🔗 Share this article Trump Administration Prepared to Dispatch Dozens Government Officers to San Francisco The White House appeared poised on Wednesday to deploy dozens of law enforcement personnel to the San Francisco Bay Area for a major border security initiative, prompting outrage from California leaders. Details of the Mission Details of the mission were continuing to unfold, but it will allegedly feature approximately 100+ federal agents, as reported. The officers are reportedly set to begin occupying the Coast Guard facility in across the bay, opposite San Francisco. It was not confirmed whether military personnel would participate. Political Backlash The operation is the result of weeks of warnings by Donald Trump to take action against the progressive municipality. California’s governor Gavin Newsom criticized the action, labeling it “straight from the authoritarian playbook”. “He dispatches masked men, he dispatches customs officers, he deploys ICE, he creates worry and terror in the population so that he can take credit for handling that by dispatching the national guard,” Newsom said. “This is no different than the firestarter fighting the blaze.” City Preparation San Francisco is the newest major city focused on by the federal effort of mass immigration arrests. The mission is anticipated to provoke a showdown between the White House and municipal authorities who have pledged to stop militarized immigration enforcement in the city. San Franciscans have been readying for months for Trump to fulfill repeated threats to send troops to the city. At a Wednesday media briefing, San Francisco’s city leader emphasized that the city was prepared. “Over recent weeks, we have been preparing for the chance of some kind of national intervention in our city,” stated the official, adding that he had implemented additional measures on Wednesday to “enhance the city’s assistance to our immigrant communities, and guarantee our departments are coordinated before any national intervention.” Legal Context Despite court battles to missions in a multiple urban areas, including Chicago, Portland and Southern California, Trump has asserted “absolute authority” to send the state troops in cities, citing the federal statute which enables presidents certain rights to send forces on US soil. Public Response Newsom, who previously served as San Francisco’s city leader – had vowed to take action “right away” to a deployment in the city. “The idea that the federal government can dispatch personnel into our cities with no legitimate cause supported by evidence, no monitoring, no answerability, no respect for local authority – it’s a direct assault on the legal system,” he said on Wednesday. Public associations, including social justice nonprofits established during the previous presidential term, have prepped to quickly mobilize a large protest in the city, as well as candlelight gatherings at community centers. Local Effect In San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood, a largely Hispanic neighborhood, city supervisor stated to media last week she and her constituents had been preparing for this situation. “The point that employees avoid workplaces, when people of color cannot move about freely without the fear of government officers discriminating against and detaining them, the moment when students avoid classrooms, are too scared to go to the supermarket or physician,” she said. “Our ongoing preparations in the Mission is basically a closure the likes of which we haven’t seen since the health crisis.” State Troops Situation Approximately 300 out of four thousand regional military personnel stay under federal control under an order from Trump. Roughly several hundred of them had been transferred to the Pacific Northwest, where they were remaining in uncertainty during a legal battle over their mission. This time, Newsom said he had called the state military personnel under his authority to operate distribution centers throughout the administrative stoppage.