The Trump administration is deploying more than 100 federal law-enforcement agents, including U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers, to a U.S. Coast Guard base in the Bay Area in preparation for an enforcement operation.
The San Francisco Chronicle first reported the deployment, noting that federal agents were expected to arrive Thursday at Coast Guard Base Alameda.
About an hour after the Chronicle’s story was published online Wednesday, California Gov. Gavin Newsom urged residents to remain peaceful as the Trump administration launched another enforcement operation in California. The first such operation took place earlier this year in Los Angeles, when President Donald Trump ordered National Guard troops to protect federal buildings from widespread protest over his immigrati