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

Trump posted on social media 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.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents had already begun arriving to support federal efforts to track down immigrants in the country illegally, and protesters were gathering outside a U.S. Coast Guard base where they were located.

A few hundred people, many singing hymns and carrying signs saying “No ICE or troops in t

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