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(NewsNation) — A scheduled "stepped-up" national beingness successful San Francisco has been enactment connected clasp by President Donald Trump, who is allowing San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie clip to effort and crook the city's transgression issues around, the White House confirmed to NewsNation.
Lurie wrote successful a societal media station connected Thursday that Trump told him successful a telephone speech precocious Wednesday that helium would clasp sending successful national officers and agents, which were expected to statesman arriving connected Thursday.
NewsNation confirmed connected Wednesday that astatine slightest 100 Customs and Border Protection agents were expected to get successful San Francisco connected Thursday. NewsNation has learned that astatine this time, further Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers won’t beryllium sent to San Francisco.
Lurie wrote successful a societal media station that keeping San Francisco residents harmless "is his apical priority" and that arsenic portion of that commitment, helium welcomed partnering with national agencies, including the FBI, Drug Enforcement Administration, ATF and the U.S. Attorney's Office to "get drugs and cause dealers disconnected our streets."
A White House spokesperson responded to NewsNation's petition for confirmation with a Trump Truth Social post successful which the president said helium was giving Lurie clip to "turn it around."
"I spoke to Mayor Lurie past nighttime and helium asked, precise nicely, that I springiness him a accidental to spot if helium tin crook it around, " Trump wrote. "I told him I deliberation helium is making a mistake, due to the fact that we tin bash it overmuch faster, and region the criminals that the Law does not licence him to remove. I told him, “It’s an easier process if we bash it, faster, stronger, and safer but, let’s spot however you do?” The radical of San Francisco person travel unneurotic connected warring Crime, particularly since we began to instrumentality complaint of that precise nasty subject."
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection root told NewsNation that the planned cognition is connected hold.
This is simply a processing story. NewsNation volition update the communicative arsenic much accusation becomes available.
