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The Trump administration seemed ready on Wednesday to deploy scores of federal agents to the Bay Area region for a significant crackdown on immigration, sparking outrage from California leaders.

Information of the Mission

Information of the operation were continuing to unfold, but it will reportedly involve approximately 100+ law enforcement personnel, according to reports. The personnel are expected to begin occupying the Coast Guard facility in across the bay, across the bay from San Francisco. It was still uncertain whether national guard troops would join the operation.

Government Reaction

The operation comes after weeks of warnings by Donald Trump to target the liberal city. The state's leader Gavin Newsom criticized the action, calling it “right out of the dictator’s handbook”.

“He dispatches covered agents, he dispatches border agents, he deploys immigration officials, he generates worry and terror in the population so that he can lay claim for solving that by sending in the national guard,” Newsom said. “This is exactly like the arsonist putting out the fire.”

Municipal Planning

San Francisco is the latest major city singled out by Donald Trump’s campaign of large-scale detentions. The deployment is expected to trigger a confrontation between the administration and municipal authorities who have vowed to block armed border control in the city.

San Franciscans have been readying for weeks for Trump to fulfill frequent statements to dispatch personnel to the city. At a Wednesday public announcement, San Francisco’s municipal chief emphasized that the city was ready.

“During this period, we have been expecting the chance of some kind of government operation in our city,” said the mayor, explaining that he had enacted new policies on Wednesday to “strengthen the city’s assistance to our immigrant communities, and make certain our agencies are coordinated prior to any national intervention.”

Constitutional Context

In spite of judicial disputes to missions in a multiple urban areas, including the Windy City, the Pacific Northwest and LA, Trump has asserted “complete control” to dispatch the state troops in cities, referencing the presidential authority which allows presidents specific authority to deploy troops on American territory.

Local Preparation

The governor, who previously served as San Francisco’s mayor – had committed to step in “immediately” to a operation in the city. “The idea that the White House can deploy troops into our cities with no legitimate cause based on facts, no supervision, no answerability, disregard for local authority – it constitutes an attack on the judicial framework,” he said on Wednesday.

Public associations, including social justice nonprofits formed in the first Trump administration, have organized to rapidly assemble a mass rally in the city, as well as peaceful assemblies at community centers.

Neighborhood Consequences

In San Francisco’s Mission area, a mostly Latin American neighborhood, city supervisor stated to media last week she and her residents had been bracing for this time. “The time that employees avoid workplaces, when people of color cannot move about freely without the concern of national personnel discriminating against and detaining them, the moment when parents stop sending kids to school, are too scared to go to the food market or physician,” she said. “The readiness efforts in the Mission is basically a shutdown the likes of which we haven’t seen since the pandemic.”

Military Situation

Approximately three hundred out of several thousand regional state soldiers continue under national command under an directive from Trump. Approximately 200 of them had been sent to the neighboring state, where they were staying in standby during a judicial dispute over their mission.

This time, Newsom said he had called the local soldiers under his control to manage food banks during the administrative stoppage.