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The federal government appeared poised on Wednesday to deploy numerous of federal agents to the Bay Area region for a significant crackdown on immigration, prompting condemnation from California leaders.

Information of the Deployment

Specifics of the mission were continuing to unfold, but it will reportedly include approximately 100+ government officers, as reported. The officers are reportedly set to begin utilizing the military installation in across the bay, facing San Francisco. It remained unclear whether military personnel would participate.

Official Response

The mission follows an extended period of threats by the president to focus on the liberal city. California’s governor Gavin Newsom denounced the decision, calling it “right out of the authoritarian playbook”.

“He deploys masked men, he dispatches customs officers, he deploys ICE, he instills worry and terror in the community so that he can claim credit for solving that by deploying the state troops,” he declared. “This mirrors the incendiary fighting the blaze.”

Local Planning

San Francisco is the most recent major city targeted by Donald Trump’s campaign of mass immigration arrests. The mission is likely to cause a showdown between the administration and city officials who have vowed to stop paramilitary operations in the city.

San Franciscans have been readying for weeks for Trump to make good on frequent statements to send troops to the city. At a Wednesday public announcement, San Francisco’s city leader reiterated that the city was ready.

“For months, we have been preparing for the likelihood of an impending government operation in our city,” said the mayor, adding that he had taken further executive actions on Wednesday to “enhance the city’s protection of our foreign-born residents, and make certain our offices are prepared before any federal deployment.”

Judicial Context

Regardless of judicial disputes to missions in a several municipalities, including Illinois, Portland and Southern California, Trump has asserted “unquestioned power” to send the military forces in cities, referencing the presidential authority which allows presidents specific authority to send forces on US soil.

Local Reaction

Newsom – who previously served as San Francisco’s mayor – had vowed to step in “without delay” to a mission in the city. “The idea that the federal government can dispatch personnel into our cities with no valid reason grounded in reality, no monitoring, no answerability, no respect for regional control – it’s a direct assault on the rule of law,” he said on Wednesday.

Community groups, including social justice nonprofits established during the first Trump administration, have prepared to quickly mobilize a public demonstration in the city, as well as candlelight gatherings at local libraries.

Community Impact

In San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood, a predominantly Latino population, city supervisor informed journalists last week she and her voters had been bracing for this moment. “The point that people stop going to work, when minority individuals cannot move about freely without the fear of national personnel targeting based on race and detaining them, the point when families keep children home, grow too frightened to go to the food market or doctor,” she said. “What we have been preparing for in the Mission is essentially a shutdown the likes of which we have not experienced since the health crisis.”

Military Status

Approximately several hundred out of several thousand California state soldiers continue under national command under an order from Trump. Approximately two hundred of them had been transferred to the Pacific Northwest, where they were waiting in limbo in the midst of a court case over their deployment.

This week, Newsom said he had called the California national guard troops under his control to staff food banks throughout the administrative stoppage.