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trump administration The president is temporarily barred from initiating federal action against San Francisco that has long threatened San Francisco, even despite immigration restrictions, the president wrote on Truth Social on Thursday. Agents gathered at the Coast Guard base Just outside the city in anticipation of the planned boom.
“The federal government was preparing to bring a ‘surge’ to San Francisco, California on Saturday, but my friends who live in the area called last night to tell me not to move forward with the surge because the mayor, Daniel Lurie, is making substantial progress,” trump wrote.
“I spoke to mayor lurie Last night and he asked very nicely that I give him a chance to see if he can turn it around,” the President said.
Trump also said that technology officials would like to Jensen Huang of Nvidia And salesforce’s Marc Benioff “saying San Francisco has a great future,” comments that convinced them to at least temporarily suspend operations.
Lurie, in a statement on xHe said he spoke to the president and Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem, who assured him that the administration was “canceling any plans for a federal deployment in San Francisco.”
Lurie wrote, “I told them the same thing I told my residents: San Francisco is growing.” “Visitors are coming back, buildings are being leased and purchased, and employees are coming back to the office… We appreciate that the President understands that we are a global hub for technology, and when San Francisco is strong, our country is strong.”
The mayor said that city leaders “would welcome a continued partnership with the FBI, DEA, ATF, and U.S. Attorney to remove drugs and drug dealers from our streets, but having a military and militarized immigration enforcement in our city will hinder our recovery.”
Salesforce declined to comment when asked about Trump’s claim Benioff was involved in discussions with the president that led to the halt of operations.
Independent Nvidia has been contacted for comment.
Reports of the impending crackdown prompted immediate protests in the area. Thursday morning, law enforcement officers Flash bang-style grenade used On a crowd of activists attempting to prevent federal personnel from entering the Coast Guard base.
The change in plans is notable because the White House has in the past largely ignored protests from local leaders in other Democrat-run cities such as Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland and Washington, D.C., who have largely objected to the administration sending or attempting to send large numbers of federal agents and National Guard troops for a similar operation.
California leaders, reacting to earlier news of a possible surge in San Francisco, feared that the Trump administration would use the operation as a pretext to incite unrest, then send the National Guard into the city or invoke rebellion act,
In a video statement on Wednesday, California Governor and former San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom accused the president of using tactics “out of the dictator’s playbook.”
“This is no different than an arsonist putting out a fire,” Newsom. Said“We need to shut him out and we can’t play his game.”
Today’s reversal is all the more surprising given that Trump administration officials have spent weeks Suggestion of a federal operation Targeting crime and immigration violations in San Francisco was imminent.
“San Francisco was really one of the great cities in the world, and then 15 years ago, it went wrong. It woke up,” the president told Fox News on Sunday. “But we’re going to San Francisco, and we’re going to make it great.”
If leaders at Nvidia and Salesforce indeed convince Trump not to launch the San Francisco operation, it would be the latest reminder of the Silicon Valley world’s close relationship with this administration. Many top tech leaders endorsed Trump in this election or donated millions to his inauguration, and top Silicon Valley companies have since been major players across much of the Trump administration’s economic and political agenda.
the administration has Nvidia largely barred from selling its most advanced chips in China Amidst the ongoing trade war, while company Allegedly It has been approved to send millions of advanced AI chips to the United Arab Emirates as part of a major deal in exchange for which the country will increase investment in the US. Nvidia is also one of the US companies supporting Trump and Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer’s US-UK “Tech Prosperity Deal”. announced last month,
Meanwhile, Salesforce’s Benioff, a billionaire executive previously known for supporting progressive causes, said earlier this month that he “fully supports” National Guard troops being sent to San Francisco to curb crime.
Benioff, whose company Allegedly Immigration and Customs Enforcement focused on using its AI capabilities, apologized later For comments.
Although the San Francisco operation may be closed, the Trump administration remains deeply divided with California officials On immigration.
The White House ignored local objections and federalized hundreds of members of the California National Guard over the summer to respond to protests against anti-immigration raids in Los Angeles, prompting the state to sue.
A federal court in August found that the Trump administration’s actions violated the Posse Comitatus Act, which prohibits military involvement in large-scale domestic law enforcement, though the ruling is on hold pending a federal appeal.
Meanwhile, the Trump administration has tried to send hundreds of now-unionized California Guardsmen to Portland, Oregon, in a similar move, though that has also been blocked in court.
Federal agents conducting immigration checks in California have been accused of illegal tactics.
A federal court determined that immigration officials in Southern California were Indiscriminate profiling and arrest people on the basis of race and language, although last month the Supreme Court overturned an injunction If.
In a separate California district covering Sacramento and Kern counties, a federal court barred immigration agents from racially profiling suspects based on their appearance and language, following statements by critics. Indiscriminate raids in farming communities at the beginning of the year,
In July, a US lawyer warned a top Border Patrol official leading the raid about an injunction in light of the ongoing crackdown in the area. suddenly dismissed,