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The Trump administration was preparing on Wednesday to deploy dozens of government officers to the northern California for a significant immigration enforcement operation, prompting outrage from local politicians.

Details of the Deployment

Specifics of the operation were gradually becoming clear, but it will allegedly feature over a hundred law enforcement personnel, based on information. The personnel are reportedly set to begin occupying the Coast Guard facility in the East Bay, facing San Francisco. It was not confirmed whether national guard troops would also be involved.

Government Backlash

The mission comes after an extended period of statements by the president to focus on the progressive municipality. The state's leader Gavin Newsom criticized the decision, calling it “straight from the autocrat's manual”.

“He sends out masked men, he sends out customs officers, he sends out immigration officials, he generates anxiety and fear in the neighborhood so that he can claim credit for handling that by dispatching the national guard,” Newsom said. “This is no different than the arsonist fighting the blaze.”

Municipal Planning

San Francisco is the latest metropolitan center singled out by the administration's initiative of widespread apprehensions. The deployment is likely to cause a standoff between the White House and local leaders who have committed to prevent armed border control in the city.

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

“For months, we have been expecting the possibility of some kind of national intervention in our city,” said the mayor, explaining that he had taken further executive actions on Wednesday to “bolster the city’s assistance to our newcomer populations, and guarantee our departments are prepared ahead of any government operation.”

Legal Background

Regardless of judicial disputes to deployments in a multiple urban areas, including Illinois, Portland and Los Angeles, Trump has claimed “absolute authority” to send the state troops in cities, referencing the presidential authority which enables presidents certain rights to deploy troops on domestic land.

Public Reaction

Newsom, who previously served as San Francisco’s city leader – had pledged to step in “right away” to a mission in the city. “The concept that the national administration can send forces into our cities with no justification grounded in reality, no oversight, no answerability, no consideration of state sovereignty – it constitutes an attack on the rule of law,” he said on Wednesday.

Public associations, including civil rights groups created during the first Trump administration, have organized to quickly mobilize a large protest in the city, as well as vigils at local libraries.

Neighborhood Consequences

In San Francisco’s Mission area, a largely Hispanic population, local representative stated to media last week she and her voters had been bracing for this situation. “The point that people stop going to work, when people of color can’t freely walk outside without the apprehension of national personnel discriminating against and apprehending them, the time when parents stop sending kids to school, grow too frightened to go to the supermarket or medical provider,” she said. “Our ongoing preparations in the Mission is essentially a halt the scale of which we haven’t seen since the health crisis.”

State Troops Condition

Roughly three hundred out of 4,000 regional state soldiers remain federalized under an order from Trump. Roughly two hundred of them had been transferred to the Pacific Northwest, where they were staying in standby during a court case over their mission.

This week, Newsom said he had requested the California national guard troops under his authority to staff distribution centers during the government shutdown.