Lurie said his team remains “prepared for any scenario” and has a plan ready to be activated at any moment if necessary.

“It is my sincere hope that we never have to put that planning into action,” he told reporters Thursday.

“I am profoundly grateful to all the San Franciscans who came together over the last several days during a difficult time,” he continued. “This takes everyone. Our community, our values, and our progress have been on full display. This is our city at our best.”

Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi commended Lurie’s leadership, saying his handling of the potential deployment demonstrated a “steadfast commitment to the safety and well-being of San Franciscans.”

“Mayor Lurie has underscored that public safety must be driven by local priorities, respectful of our values and communities,” she wrote in a statement.

Not all local leaders were satisfied with Lurie’s announcement, though.

Supervisor Jackie Fielder, who represents San Francisco’s Mission District, a neighborhood with a significant Latino community, said she was concerned that the mayor “would welcome continued partnerships” with federal law enforcement agencies, which have been reassigned to conduct immigration enforcement activities under Trump.

“While we in San Francisco uphold a criminal justice system that ensures due process, Trump does not,” she said in a statement. “Trump has said he will come after presumed criminals, but his forces have come after law-abiding people in other cities, regardless of citizenship status … Welcoming ATF, FBI, DEA under Pam Bondi is a dangerous invitation to a fascist administration.”

San Francisco Supervisor Jackie Fielder speaks during a press conference with elected and public safety officials and labor leaders in front of City Hall in San Francisco on Jan. 28, 2025, to reaffirm San Francisco’s commitment to being a Sanctuary City. (Beth LaBerge/KQED)

Lurie said the city has ongoing partnerships with federal law enforcement agencies to fight pervasive fentanyl use, and added that in a call Thursday with Attorney General Pam Bondi, she “echoed her willingness to partner with our local law enforcement to combat fentanyl and hold drug traffickers accountable.”

In other cities where Trump has deployed National Guard troops, he’s first sent in additional immigration agents, which has incited protests and offered a justification for the federal military forces.

In recent weeks, Trump has set his eye on the Bay Area for National Guard deployment, saying in a Fox News appearance Sunday that troops would come to San Francisco, floating the possible invocation of the Insurrection Act to carry out the deployment.

On Wednesday, Gov. Gavin Newsom called the move part of the “authoritarian playbook.”

“You send first masked men to the cities that you want to militarize … communities are torn asunder, it creates anxiety and stress, and that manifests into expressions of free speech,” he said. “And then you use those expressions and those images as the justification to send the guard and suppress free speech, suppress free expression.”

KQED’s Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman, Sydney Johnson and Alex Hall contributed to this report.