Federal deployment to San Francisco called off
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The agents are being sent to the San Francisco area as part of Trump's immigration crackdown, the New York Times and San Francisco Chronicle reported.
ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Law enforcement officers fired shots at a vehicle that backed into a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area that had earlier been the site of protests against federal immigration agents, and hours after President Donald Trump called off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco to quell crime.
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Federal agents sent to San Francisco area, which mayor says is meant to incite ‘chaos and violence’
The U.S. Coast Guard has announced it is providing a base for U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents in the San Francisco area
The San Francisco district attorney said in an interview that she came up with the strategy after seeing federal agents repeatedly roughing up people in Los Angeles and Chicago.
Trump has claimed “unquestioned power” and indicated he could justify deploying federal troops to San Francisco under the Insurrection Act, an 1807 law that gives the federal government authority to suppress a rebellion or civil unrest.
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