"I spoke with Alameda County Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez, who confirmed through her communications with ICE that Border Patrol operations are canceled for the greater Bay Area - which includes Oakland - at this time,"
"Gov. Gavin Newsom called the move part of the "authoritarian playbook" being used by Trump's administration."
"You send first masked men to the cities that you want to militarize ... communities are torn asunder, it creates anxiety and stress, and that manifests into expressions of free speech. And then you use those expressions and those images as the justification to send the guard and suppress free speech, suppress free expression,"
Border Patrol operations planned for the greater Bay Area, including Oakland, were canceled following communications between local officials and ICE. Alameda County Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez confirmed that planned enforcement actions were called off after federal direction to cancel them. The cancellation followed a broader Trump administration plan to surge federal immigration enforcement into certain cities, a tactic that previously coincided with National Guard deployments to Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Portland. Critics characterized the approach as targeting Democrat-led cities and raising concerns about abuse of power and suppression of free expression.
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