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The Trump administration appeared poised on Wednesday to dispatch dozens of law enforcement personnel to the northern California for a major immigration enforcement operation, triggering outrage from local politicians.

Information of the Deployment

Specifics of the mission were still emerging, but it will allegedly feature approximately 100+ law enforcement personnel, as reported. The officers are expected to begin using the Coast Guard facility in across the bay, across the bay from San Francisco. It remained unclear whether military personnel would participate.

Government Reaction

The operation is the result of months of warnings by the president to take action against the progressive municipality. Governor Gavin Newsom condemned the move, calling it “right out of the autocrat's manual”.

“He sends out masked men, he sends out customs officers, he sends out ICE, he creates anxiety and fear in the community so that he can take credit for solving that by dispatching the state troops,” he declared. “This is no different than the incendiary extinguishing the inferno.”

City Preparation

San Francisco is the most recent metropolitan center targeted by the federal effort of large-scale detentions. The deployment is anticipated to provoke a confrontation between the administration and local leaders who have pledged to prevent paramilitary operations in the city.

San Franciscans have been readying for weeks for Trump to make good on repeated threats to send troops to the city. At a Wednesday public announcement, San Francisco’s city leader stated again that the city was prepared.

“During this period, we have been expecting the chance of some kind of government operation in our city,” said the mayor, explaining that he had implemented additional measures on Wednesday to “bolster the city’s protection of our newcomer populations, and guarantee our departments are organized prior to any government operation.”

Legal Framework

Regardless of court battles to deployments in a multiple urban areas, including Illinois, Oregon and Southern California, Trump has declared “unquestioned power” to deploy the military forces in cities, pointing to the federal statute which allows presidents limited power to dispatch personnel on domestic land.

Community Response

The governor, who previously served as San Francisco’s mayor – had vowed to step in “without delay” to a operation in the city. “The idea that the federal government can send forces into our cities with no legitimate cause based on facts, no monitoring, no responsibility, no consideration of state sovereignty – it’s a direct assault on the rule of law,” he said on Wednesday.

Local organizations, including advocacy organizations formed in the first Trump administration, have organized to rapidly assemble a public demonstration in the city, as well as candlelight gatherings at public spaces.

Neighborhood Impact

In San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood, a mostly Latin American neighborhood, city supervisor informed journalists last week she and her residents had been anticipating this moment. “The point that workers cease employment, when minority individuals are afraid to go outdoors without the concern of national personnel racially profiling and apprehending them, the time when families keep children home, grow too frightened to go to the food market or medical provider,” she said. “What we have been preparing for in the Mission is essentially a shutdown the extent of which we haven’t seen since the health crisis.”

State Troops Situation

About three hundred out of four thousand regional state soldiers continue under national command under an directive from Trump. About two hundred of them had been dispatched to the neighboring state, where they were waiting in limbo amid a judicial dispute over their assignment.

This time, Newsom said he had summoned the local soldiers under his control to operate distribution centers during the government shutdown.