The Trump administration is sending federal brokers to San Francisco following weeks of threats from the president to deploy the Nationwide Guard to the Bay Space.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom launched a assertion on X confirming and criticizing the brokers’ upcoming arrival. He known as deployment a “web page proper out of the dictator’s handbook” meant to create the circumstances of unrest essential to then ship within the Nationwide Guard.
“He sends out masked males, he sends out Border Patrol, he sends out ICE, he creates nervousness and worry in the neighborhood in order that he can lay declare to fixing that by sending within the [National] Guard,” stated Newsom. “That is no completely different than the arsonist placing out the fireplace.”
Round 100 federal brokers, together with members of U.S. Customs and Border Safety, are en path to the U.S. Coast Guard’s Alameda base, based on reporting from the San Francisco Chronicle. The Coast Guard and DHS didn’t instantly reply to The Instances’ request for remark.
Trump has prompt for weeks that San Francisco is subsequent on his listing for Nationwide Guard deployment, after the administration despatched troops to Los Angeles and Chicago and is battling in court docket to ship them to Portland, Ore.
On Sunday, Trump instructed Fox Information, “We’re going to San Francisco and we’ll make it nice. It’ll be nice once more.”
Trump has prompt that the position of the Nationwide Guard in San Francisco could be to handle crime charges. Nonetheless, the Nationwide Guard is mostly not allowed to carry out home legislation enforcement duties when federalized by the president.
In September, he stated that cities with Democratic political management corresponding to San Francisco, Chicago and Los Angeles “are very unsafe locations and we’re going to straighten them out.”
Trump stated he instructed Protection Secretary Pete Hegseth that “we must always use a few of these harmful cities as coaching for our army, our nationwide guard.”
Newsom urged Californians to stay peaceable within the face of the arrival of federal brokers.
“President Trump and [White House Deputy Chief of Staff] Stephen Miller’s authoritarian playbook is coming for an additional of our cities, and violence and vandalism are precisely what they’re searching for to invoke chaos,” stated Newsom on X.
The sending of federal brokers to San Francisco comes because the Trump administration continues to crack down on immigration throughout the nation in an try to hold out what the president has proclaimed is the biggest deportation effort in U.S. historical past.
