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Federal immigration agents were greeted by protests on Thursday san francisco bay area Head to a century-old, government-owned artificial island that houses a U.S. Coast Guard base.
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents began arriving on the Coast Guard island to support federal efforts to track immigrants in the country illegally. The Coast Guard is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, along with Customs and Border Protection. Immigration and Customs EnforcementOr ICE.
“Through a whole of government approach, we are leveraging our unique authorities and capabilities to detect, intercept and interdict illegal aliens, narco-terrorists and individuals intent on terrorism or other hostile activity before they reach our borders,” the Coast Guard said in a statement to news media.
chairman donald trump Then said Thursday that he was supporting a planned increase of federal agents in San Francisco after talking to the mayor. It was not clear whether the President was canceling National Guard Deploying or discontinuing immigration enforcement by CBP agents.
Coast Guard Island is a 67-acre man-made island created in 1913 in the Oakland estuary between Oakland and Alameda. It is federally owned, does not allow visitors from the general public without an escort or specific government identification, and has been home to the current base, Base Alameda, since 2012, according to a 2016 Coast Guard document.
Base Alameda provides a variety of services to Coast Guard activities throughout the West Coast.
The island was created partly to deal with sanitation problems in Alameda through a proposed tidal canal in 1873. By 1918, the island, built using soil obtained from dredging, was ready for occupation. Its first tenant was the San Francisco Shipbuilding Company, which built two ships before closing in 1921.
The Coast Guard first came to the island in 1926 when it established a base there. The Coast Guard used the land for various purposes, including a training center established in the 1940s and closed in 1982. That year, the Coast Guard established Support Station Alameda and the island was renamed Coast Guard Island.
Ultimately, in February 2012, the Coast Guard established Base Alameda on the island, combining several existing operations to establish departments at the base.
According to a 2016 Coast Guard document, Coast Guard Island employs more than 1,200 people during the weekday, including active duty military, Coast Guard Reserve, civilians, contractors, and occasional Guard support personnel.
The circumference of this island is approximately 1.25 miles.
The base is the home port for four so-called National Security Cutters – ships that are 418 feet long, 54 feet wide, have a top speed of more than 28 knots, a range of 12,000 nautical miles, an endurance of up to 90 days and a crew capacity of up to 170, according to the Coast Guard.
One 21 of them recently returned from an Arctic deployment of more than 21,000 nautical miles.