The ‘Surge’ of Troops May Not Come to San Francisco, but the City Is Ready Anyway

Month after month Establishment by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement And across American cities the National Guard, federal agents are preparing to land San Francisco.

Local resistance groups are coordinating with activists in other cities across the country blockaded by federal law enforcement. Through thousands of volunteers, coordination signal group chat, zoom call, and social media Post, planned protests and spread word that federal troops were on their way to San Francisco. Although they are not yet.

On Thursday morning, SF Mayor Daniel Lurie posted Instagram And X to announce that he had spoken to the President Donald Trump and convinced him to drop calls to federal agents planning to visit San Francisco this Saturday. Trump has confirmed this The truth is social Afterward, writing, “Great people like Jensen Huang, Marc Benioff and others have called to say the future of San Francisco is great. They want to give it a ‘shot’. Therefore, we will not be moving to San Francisco on Saturday. Stay tuned!”

Activists and San Francisco residents aren’t exactly convinced, and so the organization continues.

Earlier this week, A team of about 100 federal law enforcement agents converged on the Coast Guard island, a small base in Alameda, just across the bay from San Francisco that federal officials say is being used as a staging area for an upcoming immigration operation. Only one road leads to and from the island, and once word of the deployment spreads, agents are quickly boxed in. 200 protestors tried to disrupt their movement on Thursday morning clash.

A group called on Wednesday night gulf resistance An educational webinar was held that drew a large turnout; Due to the group’s Zoom subscription limitations, it had to limit the call to 5,000 participants. Hundreds more later watched a recording.

“The Bay will not sit quietly,” Emily Lee, a Bay Resistance organizer, said on the mobilization call. “We are definitely going to stand together against this administration.”

Throughout the call, organizers spoke in English with Spanish translation, sharing plans for upcoming actions across the Gulf. They spoke about the lessons learned from their direct contact with Los Angeles organizers who mobilized against ICE operations and federal troop deployments there, and the importance of confronting the Portland protesters who relied on them. Humor and inflatable animals to counter ICE’s actions and protest Trump’s claim that the city is a “war-torn” hellhole.