“This situation has change into more and more and terrifyingly extra actual for 1000’s of our constituents over the previous six days,” stated Supervisor Jackie Fielder, whose district consists of the closely Latino Mission District. “We’ve been bracing for this second. The second that individuals cease going to work, when anybody Black or brown can’t freely stroll outdoors with out the concern of Trump’s federal brokers racially profiling and arresting them. The second when mother and father cease sending their youngsters to highschool, change into too afraid to go get groceries, or go to the physician.”
Gov. Gavin Newsom and Lawyer Common Rob Bonta, who sued President Donald Trump earlier this yr for deploying the Nationwide Guard in Los Angeles throughout anti-ICE protests, additionally vowed Tuesday to sue once more “in minutes” if Trump sends troops to San Francisco.
On Wednesday, Newsom ordered a Nationwide Guard unit to return to the Bay Space with a purpose to help meals banks throughout the state because the federal authorities shutdown continues. The transfer doubtlessly limits Nationwide Guard personnel obtainable for Trump’s deployment threats.
Trump has deployed the Nationwide Guard in a number of main Democratic cities this yr, together with Chicago and Portland, to observe and shield ICE brokers throughout immigration enforcement. Particulars about any army following immigration brokers to San Francisco haven’t been confirmed.
Lurie’s phrases on Wednesday marked a extra defiant tone for the mayor.
“Uncoordinated federal motion undermines our work. Having the army posted in entrance of our faculties, eating places and workplace buildings will hinder our progress and let chaos get in the way in which of our restoration,” Lurie stated. “It cuts off households from revenue, retains youngsters from the meals and social providers they desperately want, and stops folks from reporting crime and taking their family members to the hospital. This doesn’t make our metropolis safer — it terrorizes our communities.”
Lurie, standing beside Chiu in his deal with on Wednesday, underscored that the Nationwide Guard doesn’t have the ability to make arrests or police town’s fentanyl disaster and that native legislation enforcement can’t assist federal immigration enforcement.
However native police are additionally prohibited from interfering with federal ICE brokers, who could make arrests.
The mayor did invite better cooperation with federal legislation enforcement companies to arrest drug sellers.
“We’d welcome the chance to strengthen our partnerships with the FBI, DEA, ATF and U.S. Lawyer to get medication and drug sellers off our streets. That’s the work we have to preserve doing,” Lurie stated. “A federal deployment of the Nationwide Guard can’t try this. They can not arrest drug sellers or shut down open-air drug markets.”
