ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — President Donald Trump says he’s backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after speaking to the mayor.

Trump posted on social media Thursday that Mayor Daniel Lurie said the city was making progress in reducing crime. Trump said he agreed to let San Francisco keep trying on its own.

Trump’s post came after Lurie said the two spoke Wednesday night and Trump said he planned to call off a federal deployment to the city.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. AP’s earlier story follows below.

ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — Protesters gathered Thursday outside a U.S. Coast Guard base in the San Francisco Bay Area, where U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents began arriving to support federal efforts to track down immigrants in the country illegally.

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