Trump Cancels Bay Area Troop Deployment

President Donald Trump said he would not send federal troops to San Francisco after conversations with Mayor Daniel Lurie and calls from tech leaders Jensen Huang and Marc Benioff, who said the mayor was making progress. Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee and two federal officials said planned Border Patrol and U.S. Customs and Border Protection enforcement actions were canceled across the greater Bay Area and that the Department of Homeland Security called off moving staff from Los Angeles. The change followed the arrival of federal agents on Coast Guard Island, which prompted protests, a bridge blockade and at least one reported injury. Governor Gavin Newsom praised Lurie’s temperate handling of the situation but suggested Silicon Valley billionaires played an outsized role in persuading the president to stand down. Officials and critics cautioned the reprieve may be temporary amid the administration’s broader, contentious immigration enforcement and prior National Guard deployments to other U.S. cities.