SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The Trump administration is sending more than 100 federal agents to San Francisco, KRON4’s network partner NewsNation reported. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents will be arriving as early as Thursday.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said federal agents will be going into San Francisco “at the direction of the president.” ICE and CBP operate under DHS.
A CBP spokesperson told KRON4 Wednesday, “DHS is targeting the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens — including murderers, rapists, gang members, pedophiles, and terrorists — in cities such as Portland, Chicago, Memphis and San Francisco. As it does every day, DHS law enforcement will enforce the laws of our nation.”
ICE keeps a list of recently detained undocumented immigrants whom the agency considers to be the “Worst of the Worst” criminals.
San Francisco leaders are vehemently against escalating immigration enforcement in their city.
Mayor Daniel Lurie said, “We don’t know exactly what the federal government is planning in San Francisco and across the Bay Area. But we do know this federal administration has a playbook. In cities across the country, masked immigration officials are deployed to use aggressive enforcement tactics that instill fear, so people don’t feel safe going about their daily lives.”
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi wrote, “Reports of a planned mass immigration raid in the Bay Area are an appalling abuse of law enforcement power. Broad sweeps that target families and terrorize law-abiding residents betray our nation’s values.”
District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said she will prosecute federal agents who use excessive force in her city. “If a federal agent breaks the law, they must be held accountable,” Jenkins wrote.
NewsNation reported that ICE and CBP agents will be dispatched to Coast Guard Island in Alameda. The U.S. Coast Guard is part of the Department of Homeland Security.
A USCG spokesperson told KRON4, “The U.S. Coast Guard is providing facility support to Customs & Border Protection as requested. The Coast Guard is focused on ensuring safe and secure operations in support of federal partners.”
