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Tensions eased late Thursday afternoon outside Coast Guard Island after Trump backed off his plan for a federal immigration surge in the Bay Area. However, some protesters clashed with local officers who were dispatched to clear the area.
In a statement on Truth Social on Thursday, Trump said he would call off the “surge” of federal forces to San Francisco after talking to local business leaders, including the CEOs of NVIDIA and Salesforce, but did not mention the wider Bay Area, ending his post with “Stay Tuned!”
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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.
It was unclear whether the rest of the Bay Area would also be free from federal enforcement efforts, as was promised for San Francisco.
President Trump said on Thursday that he had called off the deployment in San Francisco. Two federal officials said on Friday that the action applied across the region.
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,