San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie says Trump notified him about the change in plans for immigration, crime crackdown.
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OAKLAND, California ‒ President Donald Trump is calling off his planned deployment of federal agents to San Francisco, the city’s mayor said on social media, citing a call with the Republican leader.
San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, in a post on X, said Trump called him on the evening of Oct. 22 to notify him of the halted plan, and U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem “reaffirmed that direction” in a separate call on the morning of Oct. 23.
The news came as about 300 people marched in a circle in front of the entrance to Coast Guard Island, an artificial island between Oakland and Alameda that houses several major United States Coast Guard commands. About a dozen Coast Guard officers stood watch over the protesters. The Coast Guard, which is part of the Department of Homeland Security, said in an Oct. 22 statement that the base would support border patrol agents.
Rev. Deborah Lee, co-director of the Interfaith Movement for Human Integrity, which helped organize the demonstration, said she initially couldn’t believe the news that federal agents wouldn’t be arriving.
She wondered aloud whether the administration was calling off the entire expected push into the Bay Area, or just into San Francisco.
“It would be great if it extended to every Californian and every American as well,” she said.
Trump has sent troops into a handful of Democratic-led cities across the country since June, including Los Angeles, Washington, DC, Chicago, Portland, Oregon and Memphis, Tennessee. He has said the troops are needed both to prevent crime and to support enforcement by immigration agents. The moves are the subject of several lawsuits.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom had said in an Oct. 21 statement that he would sue the Trump administration if it deploys the National Guard to San Francisco.
Contributed: Reuters
(This is a developing story and will be updated.)
