""no information we can bring to you today""
""The federal administration, of course, has escalated its rhetoric and its enforcement posture in the Bay Area,""
""We know border patrol agents are being stationed on the Coast Guard Island, but let me be clear, we are fully prepared.""
""So I'm not going to be quiet about what we know is coming. We know that their expectation is that Oakland is going to do something to cause them to make us the example.""
Less than an hour after President Donald Trump called off a planned immigration enforcement surge in San Francisco following a phone call with Mayor Daniel Lurie, Oakland leaders held a press conference to calm residents and prepare for potential operations in the East Bay. Mayor Barbara Lee acknowledged she had "no information we can bring to you today" about federal plans and asserted that the federal administration had escalated its rhetoric and enforcement posture in the Bay Area. Officials reported Border Patrol agents stationed on Coast Guard Island, encouraged residents to look out for one another and to peacefully protest, and warned against violent provocation. Alameda County District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson warned that Oakland could be targeted as an example, and sources indicated deployments in the East Bay remain possible.
Read at The Oaklandside
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