"Were it not for a last-minute reversal by President Trump, brokered in secret by a couple of billionaires and SF's mayor, San Francisco and Oakland could have easily descended into the same violent chaos, provoked by an ICE invasion, that we're seeing in Minneapolis. The Trump administration has, since Trump took office this second shameful time, been working their way down a list of enemy states and cities where federal agents have been sent in on a draconian mission"
"San Francisco and the Bay Area have seen a modicum of ICE activity since early last year, and some small protests have broken out around ICE's headquarters and the immigration court on Sansome Street. But we haven't seen anything like the continued, vengeful onslaught of masked federal agents that Minneapolis a city about half the size of San Francisco, with a much smaller immigrant community has seen over the last two months."
A last-minute reversal by President Trump, negotiated privately with two billionaires and San Francisco's mayor, prevented a planned ICE invasion of San Francisco and Oakland. The Trump administration has been targeting a list of unfriendly states and cities with federal agents sent to arrest large numbers of Latino people. Aggressive operations have focused on Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago, and Minneapolis, while Republican-leaning states like Texas and Florida have been spared. San Francisco has seen limited ICE activity and small protests, but not the large-scale, masked federal onslaught experienced in Minneapolis. An aggressive hiring push reportedly added 12,000 new ICE agents, and federal border patrol agents were reported to be staging for a "surge" at Alameda.
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