{"id":21977,"date":"2025-10-24T21:25:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:25:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/21977\/"},"modified":"2025-10-24T21:25:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T21:25:07","slug":"federal-immigration-enforcement-surge-now-paused-in-east-bay-too","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/21977\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal immigration enforcement surge now paused in East Bay too"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

A planned increase in federal immigration enforcement in the Bay Area is now on pause throughout the region and in major East Bay cities, not just in San Francisco<\/a>, Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said Friday. <\/p>\n

Lee said in a statement that Alameda County Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez had \u201cconfirmed through her communications\u201d with federal immigration officials that the planned operations were \u201ccancelled for the greater Bay Area \u2014 which includes Oakland \u2014 at this time.\u201d<\/p>\n

The announcement followed lingering concerns about ramped up immigration enforcement among East Bay leaders after President Trump and San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie announced Thursday that a planned \u201csurge\u201d had been called off in San Francisco. <\/p>\n

Trump and Lurie had very specifically addressed San Francisco, even as additional Border Patrol agents were being staged across the bay on Coast Guard Island, which is in the waters between Alameda and Oakland.<\/p>\n

At a press conference following Trump\u2019s annoucement about San Francisco, Lee had said the situation remained \u201cfluid,\u201d that she had received no such assurances about the East Bay and that Oakland was continuing to prepare for enhanced immigration enforcement in the region. <\/p>\n

Alameda County Dist. Atty. Ursula Jones Dickson had previously warned that the announced stand down in San Francisco could be a sign the administration was looking to focus on Oakland instead \u2014 and make an example of it.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe know that they\u2019re baiting Oakland, and that\u2019s why San Francisco, all of a sudden, is off the table,\u201d Jones Dickson said Thursday morning. \u201cSo I\u2019m not going to be quiet about what we know is coming. We know that their expectation is that Oakland is going to do something to cause them to make us the example.\u201d<\/p>\n

The White House on Friday directed questions about the scope of the pause in operations and whether it applied to the East Bay to the Department of Homeland Security, which referred The Times back to Trump\u2019s statement about San Francisco on Friday \u2014 despite its making no mention of the East Bay or Oakland.<\/p>\n

In that statement, posted to his Truth Social platform, Trump had written that a \u201csurge\u201d had been planned for San Francisco starting Saturday, but that he had called it off after speaking to Lurie.<\/p>\n

Trump said Lurie had asked \u201cvery nicely\u201d that Trump \u201cgive him a chance to see if he can turn it around\u201d in the city, and that business leaders \u2014 including Jensen Huang of Nvidia and Marc Benioff of Salesforce \u2014 had expressed confidence in Lurie.<\/p>\n

Trump said he told Lurie that it would be \u201ceasier\u201d to make San Francisco safer if federal forces were sent in, but told him, \u201clet\u2019s see how you do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lurie in recent days has touted falling crime rates and numbers of homeless encampments in the city, and said in his own announcement of the stand down that he had told Trump that San Francisco was \u201con the rise\u201d and that \u201chaving the military and militarized immigration enforcement in our city will hinder our recovery.\u201d<\/p>\n

In California and elsewhere, the Trump administration has aggressively sought to expand the reach and authority of the Border Patrol and federal immigration agents. Last month, the DOJ fired its top prosecutor in Sacramento<\/a> after she told Gregory Bovino, chief of the Border Patrol\u2019s El Centro Sector, that he could not carry out indiscriminate immigration raids around Sacramento this summer.<\/p>\n

In Oakland on Thursday, the planned surge in enforcement had sparked protests near the entrance to Coast Guard Island, and drew widespread condemnation from local liberal officials and immigrant advocacy organizations.<\/p>\n

On Thursday night, security officers at the base opened fire on the driver of a U-Haul truck who was reversing the truck toward them, wounding the driver and a civilian nearby. The FBI is investigating<\/a> that incident. <\/p>\n

Some liberal officials had warned that federal agents who violated the rights of Californians could face consequences \u2014 even possible arrest \u2014 from local law enforcement, which drew condemnation from federal officials.<\/p>\n

Deputy Atty. Gen. Todd Blanche responded with a scathing letter to Gov. Gavin Newsom<\/a> and others on Thursday in which he wrote that any attempt by local law enforcement to arrest federal officers doing their jobs would be viewed by the Justice Department as \u201cboth illegal and futile\u201d and as part of a \u201ccriminal conspiracy.\u201d<\/p>\n

Blanche wrote that the Supremacy Clause of the Constitution precludes any federal law enforcement official to be \u201cheld on a state criminal charge where the alleged crime arose during the performance of his federal duties,\u201d and that the Justice Department would pursue legal action against any state officials who advocate for such enforcement. <\/p>\n

\u201cIn the meantime, federal agents and officers will continue to enforce federal law and will not be deterred by the threat of arrest by California authorities who have abdicated their duty to protect their constituents,\u201d Blanche wrote.<\/p>\n

The threat of arrest for federal officers had originated in part<\/a> with San Francisco Dist. Atty. Brooke Jenkins, who had written on social media that if federal agents \u201ccome to San Francisco and illegally harass our residents … I will not hesitate to do my job and hold you accountable just like I do other violators of the law every single day.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A planned increase in federal immigration enforcement in the Bay Area is now on pause throughout the region…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21978,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[17659,10479,332,8684,4420,2424,5528,16444,143,145,406,144,17658,3020,121,101,3025,2429],"class_list":["post-21977","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-oakland","tag-additional-border-patrol-agent","tag-atty","tag-east-bay","tag-federal-immigration-agent","tag-federal-officer","tag-friday","tag-immigration-enforcement","tag-lurie","tag-oakland","tag-oakland-headlines","tag-oakland-mayor","tag-oakland-news","tag-possible-arrest","tag-president-trump","tag-sacramento","tag-san-francisco","tag-statement","tag-thursday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21977","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21977\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21978"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}