More than 100 federal agents were sent to Coast Guard Base Alameda in the San Francisco Bay Area, marking an escalation by President Donald Trump’s administration in its immigration offensive in California.
Among the agents sent would be members of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and Customs and Border Protection (CBP), who would be arriving as early as Thursday at the base, a source familiar with the operation told the San Francisco Chronicle on Wednesday.
Trump sends immigration agents to San Francisco
Send troops to San Francisco and we will sue you, @realDonaldTrump. pic.twitter.com/S6JZHzPomr
– Governor Gavin Newsom (@CAgovernor) October 22, 2025
The dispatch follows the Republican president’s threats to send the California National Guard to the city of San Francisco.
Last week Trump suggested at a White House press conference that the next city where federal forces and the National Guard might arrive would be San Francisco.
In that regard, California Governor Gavin Newsom signaled on Tuesday, October 21, that he will sue the White House again if it attempts to deploy the troops.
The president already deployed 4,000 members of the California National Guard to Los Angeles last June without the governor’s consent, in a move that had not happened in the U.S. for 60 years.
California sued and although it had some setbacks ended up winning in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals which declared the federalization of the soldiers illegal, although it let Trump maintain control over 300 assigned to guard federal buildings.
The city of San Francisco, California, would be Trump’s new target for beefing up military presence in cities governed by Democrats.
The White House is in a tug-of-war with Portland, Oregon and Chicago, Illinois to also send soldiers, including from other states.
With information from EFE
