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The Trump administration was preparing on Wednesday to send scores of government officers to the Bay Area region for a major border security initiative, prompting condemnation from local politicians.

Information of the Mission

Details of the mission were still emerging, but it will reportedly include over a hundred federal agents, according to reports. The agents are expected to begin utilizing the Coast Guard facility in across the bay, opposite San Francisco. It was not confirmed whether military personnel would also be involved.

Government Backlash

The deployment comes after an extended period of threats by the administration to focus on the progressive municipality. The state's leader Gavin Newsom denounced the action, labeling it “straight from the authoritarian playbook”.

“He deploys covered agents, he deploys Border Patrol, he dispatches immigration officials, he creates worry and terror in the neighborhood so that he can claim credit for addressing that by deploying the national guard,” Newsom said. “This is exactly like the arsonist putting out the inferno.”

Local Preparation

San Francisco is the latest metropolitan center focused on by Donald Trump’s campaign of large-scale detentions. The mission is likely to cause a confrontation between the federal government and local leaders who have committed to prevent armed border control in the city.

San Franciscans have been gearing up for months for Trump to fulfill frequent statements to send troops to the city. At a Wednesday afternoon press conference, San Francisco’s city leader reiterated that the city was prepared.

“For months, we have been anticipating the chance of an impending federal deployment in our city,” said the mayor, noting that he had taken further executive actions on Wednesday to “strengthen the city’s assistance to our foreign-born residents, and ensure our agencies are organized ahead of any government operation.”

Judicial Framework

Despite court battles to missions in a several municipalities, including Chicago, the Pacific Northwest and LA, Trump has asserted “complete control” to send the military forces in cities, pointing to the federal statute which enables presidents limited power to deploy troops on American territory.

Public Reaction

The governor, who was formerly as San Francisco’s mayor – had pledged to step in “without delay” to a operation in the city. “The concept that the federal government can dispatch personnel into our cities with no legitimate cause based on facts, no supervision, no answerability, no consideration of state sovereignty – it’s a direct assault on the judicial framework,” he said on Wednesday.

Community groups, including advocacy organizations created during the first Trump administration, have organized to quickly mobilize a public demonstration in the city, as well as peaceful assemblies at public spaces.

Neighborhood Consequences

In San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood, a predominantly Latino community, local representative informed journalists last week she and her constituents had been preparing for this moment. “The moment that workers cease employment, when minority individuals can’t freely walk outside without the concern of national personnel discriminating against and detaining them, the point when families keep children home, become too afraid to go to the supermarket or doctor,” she said. “What we have been preparing for in the Mission is basically a halt the scale of which we have not witnessed since the health crisis.”

Military Situation

Approximately 300 out of several thousand California military personnel continue under national command under an directive from Trump. Roughly 200 of them had been sent to the Pacific Northwest, where they were staying in standby in the midst of a court case over their deployment.

This time, Newsom said he had summoned the California national guard troops under his command to staff food banks amid the federal closure.