Planned Bay Area Immigration Surge Paused

President Trump announced he was calling off a planned federal “surge” of law-enforcement personnel to San Francisco after a phone call with Mayor Daniel Lurie and calls from local allies, including tech executives Marc Benioff and Jensen Huang. Federal agents and Customs and Border Protection vehicles had been staged at the U.S. Coast Guard base in Alameda and more than 100 CBP and ICE personnel had been expected to deploy, prompting hundreds of protesters and community groups to mobilize. Mayor Lurie said the president initiated the call and confirmed the stand-down while stressing the city will continue partnerships with federal agencies to fight crime but oppose militarized immigration enforcement. Local leaders and advocates condemned the threatened deployment as disruptive and unnecessary, and organizers warned the pause could be temporary amid earlier legal challenges. The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately clarify whether all planned federal activity was permanently canceled.