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ALAMEDA, Calif. -- President Donald Trump said Thursday that he's backing disconnected a planned surge of national agents into San Francisco aft speaking to the mayor.
Trump posted connected societal media that Mayor Daniel Lurie said the metropolis was making advancement successful reducing crime. Trump said helium agreed to fto San Francisco support trying connected its own.
Trump's station came aft Lurie said the 2 spoke Wednesday nighttime and Trump said helium planned to telephone disconnected a national deployment to the city.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents had already begun arriving to enactment national efforts to way down immigrants successful the state illegally, and protesters were gathering extracurricular a U.S. Coast Guard basal wherever they were located.
A fewer 100 people, galore singing hymns and carrying signs saying "No ICE oregon troops successful the Bay," referring to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, gathered soon aft dawn extracurricular Coast Guard Island successful Alameda. Police utilized astatine slightest 1 flash-bang grenade to wide a fistful of demonstrators from the entranceway arsenic CBP vehicles drove through.
Organizers urged protesters to stay peaceful, arsenic a enactment of Coast Guard officers successful helmets watched from conscionable extracurricular the entrance.
The San Francisco Chronicle, citing an anonymous root with cognition of the operation, reported Wednesday that much than 100 CBP and different national agents would get this week. Lurie and California Gov. Gavin Newsom, some Democrats, condemned the move, saying it was meant to provoke convulsive protests.
Trump has repeatedly said helium plans to deploy National Guard troops to San Francisco to quell crime, but his medication hasn't offered a timeline for doing so. His assertions of out-of-control transgression successful the metropolis of astir 830,000 person baffled section and authorities leaders, who constituent to statistic showing that galore crimes are astatine grounds lows.
Trump has deployed the Guard to Washington, D.C., and Memphis, Tennessee, to assistance combat what helium says is rampant crime. Los Angeles was the archetypal metropolis wherever Trump deployed the Guard, arguing it was indispensable to support national buildings and agents arsenic protesters fought backmost against wide migration arrests.
He has besides said they are needed successful Chicago and Portland, Oregon. Lawsuits from Democratic officials successful some cities person truthful acold blocked troops from going retired connected metropolis streets.
Coast Guard Island is an artificial land formed successful 1913, and the Coast Guard archetypal established a basal determination successful 1926. The land is owned by the national authorities and is not unfastened to the wide public, truthful escorts oregon circumstantial authorities ID cards are required for visitors. The Coast Guard is portion of the Department of Homeland Security, which besides houses ICE and CBP.
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