It's been reasonably clear for a while that immigration and crime are Donald Trump's two best (relatively speaking) issues in a second-term agenda that is generally quite unpopular. These are also issues that tend to excite the MAGA base, particularly since the Trump-Vance campaign relentlessly combined them during the 2024 presidential election to suggest America was drowning in an immigrant-driven national crime wave.
President Donald Trump has mentioned both Oakland and San Francisco among potential target cities with crime problems where he would send troops, having already ordered the National Guard in recent months to Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., and Memphis, Tenn., while making formal threats to Chicago and Portland, Oregon. The president has not yet announced any official plans to send the guard to the Bay Area.
US President Donald Trump on Saturday expanded his controversial deployment of National Guard troops to cities where he claims "domestic terrorists" are operating and where crime is rampant. The latest city will be Portland, Oregon, known across the US for its progressive politics. All of the other cities to which Trump has deployed National Guard troops to Washington DC, Memphis and Los Angeles have Democratic mayors.
