President Donald Trump is considering sending National Guard troops to San Francisco, he said Wednesday, making the California city the latest target for his administration.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have great support in San Francisco, so I would like to recommend that for inclusion, maybe in your next group,\u201d Trump said in a press conference Wednesday alongside FBI Director Kash Patel and other administration officials.<\/p>\n
Trump claimed the suggested deployment comes \u201cat the request of government officials,\u201d as the administration continues its campaign through major U.S. cities<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n It was not clear who those officials are; a spokesperson for California Gov. Gavin Newsom did not immediately respond to a request for comment. But the Democrat has been harshly critical of the president\u2019s Guard deployments, and his office put out a long statement<\/a> earlier in the day to announce \u201csignificant updates to public safety efforts in San Francisco and the greater Bay Area.\u201d<\/p>\n The move, should Trump follow through with it, would make San Francisco the latest city to receive the National Guard on its streets \u2014 and the second in California \u2014 after the administration also sent troops to Los Angeles; Washington; Chicago; Portland, Oregon, and Memphis, Tennessee, in recent months.<\/p>\n There has been a pitched legal battle over Trump\u2019s Guard deployments. California sued over the Los Angeles deployment, with a district court ruling in June<\/a> that it was illegal and an appellate court quickly pausing that decision. A federal district judge in Chicago blocked the administration\u2019s plan to deploy the guard in the city last week, the same day<\/a> that a federal appeals court panel in Oregon seemed poised to allow a similar deployment in Portland.<\/p>\n