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The Trump administration appeared poised on Wednesday to send numerous of government officers to the northern California for a large-scale immigration enforcement operation, triggering outrage from California leaders.

Details of the Deployment

Information of the deployment were gradually becoming clear, but it will reportedly include over a hundred government officers, according to reports. The agents are reportedly set to begin utilizing the Coast Guard facility in the East Bay, facing San Francisco. It remained unclear whether national guard troops would join the operation.

Political Backlash

The deployment is the result of weeks of warnings by the president to target the liberal city. California’s governor Gavin Newsom criticized the decision, labeling it “taken directly from the dictator’s handbook”.

“He deploys masked men, he dispatches customs officers, he dispatches ICE, he generates worry and terror in the population so that he can claim credit for handling that by sending in the national guard,” Newsom said. “This is exactly like the incendiary fighting the blaze.”

Local Readiness

San Francisco is the newest major city focused on by the federal effort of mass immigration arrests. The deployment is likely to cause a showdown between the federal government and city officials who have vowed to block paramilitary operations in the city.

San Franciscans have been preparing for months for Trump to make good on frequent statements to deploy forces to the city. At a Wednesday media briefing, San Francisco’s city leader emphasized that the city was ready.

“During this period, we have been preparing for the possibility of an impending national intervention in our city,” said the mayor, adding that he had enacted new policies on Wednesday to “strengthen the city’s protection of our newcomer populations, and guarantee our agencies are coordinated before any government operation.”

Judicial Context

Regardless of legal challenges to missions in a several municipalities, including the Windy City, Portland and Southern California, Trump has asserted “unquestioned power” to dispatch the military forces in cities, pointing to the presidential authority which enables presidents limited power to deploy troops on American territory.

Public Preparation

The governor, who was formerly as San Francisco’s chief executive – had pledged to intervene “immediately” to a operation in the city. “The notion that the White House can send forces into our cities with no justification grounded in reality, no supervision, no responsibility, no respect for local authority – it’s a direct assault on the judicial framework,” he said on Wednesday.

Local organizations, including advocacy organizations created during the previous presidential term, have organized to quickly mobilize a large protest in the city, as well as peaceful assemblies at local libraries.

Neighborhood Consequences

In San Francisco’s Mission area, a largely Hispanic neighborhood, city supervisor stated to media last week she and her voters had been bracing for this moment. “The time that employees avoid workplaces, when people of color can’t freely walk outside without the concern of Trump’s federal agents discriminating against and detaining them, the point when families keep children home, are too scared to go to the grocery store or physician,” she said. “Our ongoing preparations in the Mission is fundamentally a closure the scale of which we haven’t seen since the health crisis.”

State Troops Situation

Approximately three hundred out of four thousand regional national guard troops stay under federal control under an command from Trump. Roughly 200 of them had been transferred to the Pacific Northwest, where they were waiting in limbo during a judicial dispute over their deployment.

This time, Newsom said he had summoned the California national guard troops under his control to staff food banks throughout the government shutdown.