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A planned immigration crackdown by federal agents has been canceled for the entire Bay Area for now, Mayor Barbara Lee of Oakland said Friday.
A planned immigration enforcement push by U.S. Border Patrol has been called off throughout the San Francisco Bay Area, including Oakland, local officials said on Friday, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said he would not go forward with a deployment of additional federal officers to San Francisco.
Mayor Daniel Lurie confirms Trump won’t send troops or 100-plus federal agents to San Francisco for crime crackdown.
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Across the bay, nearly 5,000 showed up to rally at San Francisco's Embarcadero Plaza denouncing the threat of mass immigration raids and the possible deployment of National Guard troops elsewhere in the region,
The protests came as Department of Homeland Security vehicles descended upon the island where The Coast Guard is headquartered. It was reported Wednesday that the island would be the staging area for some 100 federal agents who were to take part in immigration enforcement starting this week in the region.