Trump Halts Federal Agent Surge In San Francisco After Mayor’s Appeal

President Donald Trump announced Thursday that he will not proceed with a previously scheduled deployment of federal agents into San Francisco, after discussions with Mayor Daniel Lurie and several business leaders including Marc Benioff and Jensen Huang, according to official statements.

Trump posted on his social-media platform that he spoke with the mayor Wednesday night and was persuaded by calls from “friends who live in the area” to give the city a chance to address its issues locally. He wrote, “Great people like Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff … called saying that the future of San Francisco is great … Therefore, we will not surge San Francisco.”

Mayor Lurie confirmed in a post that Trump called him and “told me clearly that he was calling off any plans for a federal deployment in San Francisco.”

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The original plan had involved more than 100 agents from the U.S. Customs and Border Protection and other federal units based at the Coast Guard facility in Alameda, aimed at ramping up immigration enforcement and crime operations.

While federal agents had begun arriving in the region, Trump’s decision stops the additional surge and any anticipated National Guard deployment tied to the operation.

Governor Gavin Newsom of California had previously warned of legal action if military forces were deployed without state consent.