🔗 Share this article Trump Administration Poised to Send Numerous Law Enforcement to the Bay Area The Trump administration seemed ready on Wednesday to send numerous of government officers to the Bay Area region for a major immigration enforcement operation, prompting condemnation from state officials. Details of the Deployment Details of the deployment were continuing to unfold, but it will reportedly involve over a hundred government officers, according to reports. The agents are scheduled to begin using the military installation in the East Bay, across the bay from San Francisco. It remained unclear whether national guard troops would participate. Government Response The deployment is the result of months of statements by Donald Trump to focus on the Democratic-run city. Governor Gavin Newsom denounced the decision, calling it “taken directly from the authoritarian playbook”. “He sends out masked men, he sends out customs officers, he deploys immigration officials, he instills worry and terror in the neighborhood so that he can claim credit for addressing that by dispatching the national guard,” he declared. “This mirrors the incendiary putting out the fire.” Municipal Planning San Francisco is the most recent large urban area targeted by the administration's initiative of mass immigration arrests. The mission is expected to trigger a confrontation between the White House and municipal authorities who have vowed to block paramilitary operations in the city. San Franciscans have been preparing for months for Trump to fulfill repeated threats to dispatch personnel to the city. At a Wednesday public announcement, San Francisco’s city leader emphasized that the city was equipped. “During this period, we have been expecting the possibility of an impending federal deployment in our city,” said the mayor, noting that he had taken further executive actions on Wednesday to “strengthen the city’s support for our newcomer populations, and make certain our agencies are coordinated prior to any government operation.” Legal Framework Regardless of court battles to operations in a several municipalities, including Illinois, Portland and Los Angeles, Trump has declared “absolute authority” to dispatch the state troops in cities, pointing to the presidential authority which permits presidents specific authority to dispatch personnel on American territory. Public Preparation Newsom – who was formerly as San Francisco’s chief executive – had pledged to take action “without delay” to a operation in the city. “The notion that the federal government can send forces into our cities with no legitimate cause grounded in reality, no oversight, no accountability, disregard for regional control – it’s a direct assault on the legal system,” he said on Wednesday. Community groups, including advocacy organizations created during the initial federal leadership, have organized to rapidly assemble a large protest in the city, as well as vigils at local libraries. Local Effect In San Francisco’s Mission area, a largely Hispanic community, elected official stated to media last week she and her voters had been anticipating this situation. “The point that employees avoid workplaces, when minority individuals can’t freely walk outside without the concern of Trump’s federal agents discriminating against and arresting them, the point when parents stop sending kids to school, are too scared to go to the grocery store or doctor,” she said. “The readiness efforts in the Mission is basically a shutdown the likes of which we have not witnessed since the health crisis.” Military Status About three hundred out of four thousand California national guard troops remain federalized under an directive from Trump. Approximately 200 of them had been dispatched to the neighboring state, where they were remaining in uncertainty during a court case over their deployment. This week, Newsom said he had called the California national guard troops under his authority to manage charity kitchens during the federal closure.