"It's unclear if or how the National Guard might be involved, but apparently a large contingent of federal agents, including US Customs and Border Protection personnel, are headed to the Bay Area on Thursday for some sort of operation. The gross and fascistic political theater of the Trump administration continues, and as we've been warned over the course of the last week, San Francisco is now squarely in Trump's sights."
"The paper's anonymous source says that the operation includes agents from US Customs and Border Protection so, we might be looking at another piece of theater akin to the one that happened in early July in Los Angeles' MacArthur Park. In that entirely pointless "operation," that National Guard stood guard around the park while a contingent of Border Patrol agents rode through the park which is in a heavily Latino neighborhood on horseback."
"Gregory Bovino, a Customs and Border Protection chief in Southern California and a clear Trump ally, led that operation, and gave an ominous statement to a strategically placed Fox News crew that day, saying, "Better get used to us now, cause this is going to be normal very soon." That military-style action was central to the case brought by the state of California against the administration about the illegality of using federal agents for local enforcement."
National Guard involvement is unclear, but a large contingent of federal agents, including US Customs and Border Protection personnel, is heading to the Bay Area on Thursday. Approximately 100 federal agents have been dispatched to Coast Guard Base Alameda for an immigration operation. The operation may resemble the early July MacArthur Park action in Los Angeles, where the National Guard stood guard while Border Patrol agents rode through a predominantly Latino neighborhood on horseback. Customs and Border Protection chief Gregory Bovino led that operation and said, "Better get used to us now, cause this is going to be normal very soon." That military-style action became central to California's lawsuit alleging illegal use of federal agents for local enforcement. A Ninth Circuit panel heard an appeal in Los Angeles, and 26 former governors filed a brief asking the court to rehear the case concerning the National Guard deployment in Portland.
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