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The White House seemed ready on Wednesday to deploy dozens of law enforcement personnel to the San Francisco Bay Area for a major crackdown on immigration, sparking condemnation from state officials.

Information of the Operation

Specifics of the mission were gradually becoming clear, but it will allegedly feature more than 100 federal agents, as reported. The officers are scheduled to begin utilizing the Coast Guard facility in across the bay, opposite San Francisco. It was not confirmed whether national guard troops would participate.

Official Reaction

The mission follows an extended period of warnings by the administration to take action against the progressive municipality. Governor Gavin Newsom denounced the decision, labeling it “taken directly from the authoritarian playbook”.

“He deploys covered agents, he sends out customs officers, he dispatches ICE, he generates concern and apprehension in the neighborhood so that he can claim credit for handling that by sending in the national guard,” Newsom said. “This is no different than the incendiary putting out the inferno.”

City Planning

San Francisco is the most recent metropolitan center singled out by the administration's initiative of mass immigration arrests. The mission is expected to trigger a confrontation between the federal government and city officials who have pledged to block paramilitary operations in the city.

San Franciscans have been preparing for months for Trump to fulfill frequent statements to dispatch personnel to the city. At a Wednesday public announcement, San Francisco’s city leader reiterated that the city was equipped.

“Over recent weeks, we have been preparing for the chance of some kind of national intervention in our city,” stated the official, adding that he had taken further executive actions on Wednesday to “strengthen the city’s support for our immigrant communities, and make certain our agencies are organized before any federal deployment.”

Constitutional Framework

Regardless of legal challenges to missions in a several municipalities, including Chicago, Portland and Los Angeles, Trump has asserted “absolute authority” to send the national guard in cities, pointing to the presidential authority which permits presidents certain rights to deploy troops on US soil.

Public Reaction

The governor, who previously served as San Francisco’s city leader – had pledged to intervene “right away” to a operation in the city. “The notion that the White House can dispatch personnel into our cities with no valid reason based on facts, no supervision, no answerability, no respect for regional control – it constitutes an attack on the legal system,” he said on Wednesday.

Local organizations, including advocacy organizations formed in the initial federal leadership, have prepared to quickly mobilize a mass rally in the city, as well as peaceful assemblies at community centers.

Local Effect

In San Francisco’s Mission area, a predominantly Latino population, city supervisor told reporters last week she and her voters had been preparing for this moment. “The point that employees avoid workplaces, when anyone Black or brown are afraid to go outdoors without the concern of Trump’s federal agents racially profiling and arresting them, the moment when parents stop sending kids to school, grow too frightened to go to the supermarket or doctor,” she said. “What we have been preparing for in the Mission is basically a halt the scale of which we haven’t seen since the health crisis.”

National Guard Situation

About three hundred out of 4,000 regional national guard troops remain federalized under an order from Trump. About two hundred of them had been transferred to the Pacific Northwest, where they were waiting in limbo amid a legal battle over their mission.

This time, Newsom said he had called the local soldiers under his control to manage charity kitchens amid the government shutdown.