A major escalation of immigration enforcement expected in the Bay Area has been canceled, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee confirmed Friday, a day after President Donald Trump called off a planned “surge” of federal officials into San Francisco.

The news comes after U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials began to arrive this week at Alameda’s Coast Guard Island , where they had planned to set up a “place of operation,” according to the Coast Guard. On Thursday, San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said that after a phone call with Trump, the president would not go through with plans to bring federal officials into the city this weekend, but whether the cancellation applied to the wider Bay Area was initially unclear.

Now, Lee said, it appears the region will avoid an immigration enforce

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