Gov. Gavin Newsom and Bonta held a press conference in San Francisco on Monday, calling on the Supreme Court to halt Trump’s military deployment in Chicago. Newsom and Bonta previously sued the Trump administration over sending troops to Los Angeles in June. That litigation is ongoing.

This week, Trump recently doubled down on his comments, saying he could invoke the Insurrection Act to deploy troops in San Francisco.

“We’re going to go to San Francisco,” Trump said in an interview on Sunday on Fox News. “The difference is I think they want us in San Francisco.”

The Board of Supervisors unanimously approved Fielder’s motion on Tuesday to ask the mayor about the city’s plans for responding to federal law enforcement.

“[Trump’s] comments about our city should not be taken lightly,” Fielder said at the meeting.

Lurie’s response to the board was built on a statement he released Monday, where — in a departure from his usual strategy of avoiding the topic — the mayor said issues such as outdoor drug dealing will not improve with military personnel on the ground.

A protester is arrested by police and federal officers outside a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facility in Portland, Oregon, on Oct. 6, 2025. (Ethan Swope/AP Photo)

“I am deeply grateful to the members of our military for their service to our country, but the National Guard does not have the authority to arrest drug dealers — and sending them to San Francisco will do nothing to get fentanyl off the streets or make our city safer,” Lurie said Monday.

As tensions escalate, Lurie has yet to mention Trump directly. Instead, on Monday, he said he welcomed “stronger coordination” with federal law enforcement agencies like the FBI, DEA, ATF and U.S. Attorney “to execute targeted operations, arrest drug dealers, and disrupt drug markets and multinational cartels.”

That response also raised questions from Fielder. Immigration and Customs Enforcement raids and arrests have dramatically increased in San Francisco this year, leaving many immigrants and other residents worried about any increase in federal law enforcement that could intersect with immigration, transgender and LGBTQ issues, as well as homelessness and addiction.

“In the Mission, we have been bracing for this moment, the moment that people stop going to work, when anyone Black or Brown can’t freely walk outside without the fear of Trump’s federal agents racially profiling and arresting them, the moment when parents stop sending kids to school, become too afraid to go to the grocery store or doctor,” Fielder, who represents the area, said Tuesday. “What we have been preparing for in the Mission is essentially a shutdown the likes of which we haven’t seen since COVID.”