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The federal government appeared poised on Wednesday to deploy scores of federal agents to the northern California for a large-scale crackdown on immigration, sparking condemnation from California leaders.

Information of the Mission

Specifics of the deployment were continuing to unfold, but it will reportedly include over a hundred government officers, according to reports. The personnel are reportedly set to begin utilizing the military installation in across the bay, opposite San Francisco. It was not confirmed whether national guard troops would join the operation.

Official Response

The operation follows months of threats by the president to target the liberal city. The state's leader Gavin Newsom condemned the move, calling it “right out of the dictator’s handbook”.

“He deploys unidentified officers, he dispatches customs officers, he deploys federal agents, he instills concern and apprehension in the community so that he can lay claim for addressing that by sending in the national guard,” he declared. “This is exactly like the arsonist extinguishing the blaze.”

Local Preparation

San Francisco is the latest major city focused on by Donald Trump’s campaign of widespread apprehensions. The mission is expected to trigger a confrontation between the White House and city officials who have vowed to stop paramilitary operations in the city.

San Franciscans have been gearing up for an extended period for Trump to fulfill ongoing warnings to dispatch personnel to the city. At a Wednesday public announcement, San Francisco’s mayor reiterated that the city was ready.

“During this period, we have been anticipating the chance of some kind of government operation in our city,” declared the leader, adding that he had implemented additional measures on Wednesday to “strengthen the city’s assistance to our immigrant communities, and make certain our agencies are coordinated ahead of any federal deployment.”

Judicial Background

Despite court battles to missions in a several municipalities, including Illinois, the Pacific Northwest and Los Angeles, Trump has declared “unquestioned power” to deploy the military forces in cities, referencing the Insurrection Act which allows presidents specific authority to send forces on American territory.

Local Response

Newsom – who once held office as San Francisco’s city leader – had vowed to step in “without delay” to a deployment in the city. “The notion that the White House can deploy troops into our cities with no justification based on facts, no supervision, no responsibility, no consideration of local authority – it constitutes an attack on the legal system,” he said on Wednesday.

Public associations, including advocacy organizations established during the initial federal leadership, have prepped to swiftly gather a public demonstration in the city, as well as candlelight gatherings at public spaces.

Local Impact

In San Francisco’s Mission district, a mostly Latin American neighborhood, elected official informed journalists last week she and her constituents had been preparing for this moment. “The time that people stop going to work, when minority individuals cannot move about freely without the fear of national personnel discriminating against and arresting them, the point when students avoid classrooms, grow too frightened to go to the grocery store or doctor,” she said. “Our ongoing preparations in the Mission is fundamentally a halt the scale of which we haven’t seen since the health crisis.”

State Troops Situation

Roughly 300 out of several thousand state state soldiers continue under national command under an order from Trump. Approximately 200 of them had been dispatched to the Pacific Northwest, where they were waiting in limbo during a legal battle over their deployment.

This time, Newsom said he had requested the state military personnel under his control to manage charity kitchens throughout the federal closure.