President Trump Thursday morning called off a planned deployment of federal immigration agents to San Francisco. He\u00a0 said in a social media post that he had stopped action in San Francisco \u201cat the request of friends who live in the Bay Area,\u201d The New York Times reports, who vouched for the work of the city\u2019s Democratic mayor, Daniel Lurie.<\/p>\n
The move came just as the agents were beginning to gather at the Alameda Coast Guard base in the bay.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s all something of a feint, because earlier this very week, it wasn\u2019t ICE agents the president was threatening to set loose on Baghdad by the Bay \u2014 it was the National Guard. Which would be an occupation far more disruptive to the citizenry of the city and the people of California than even the formerly planned, amped-up, macho paramilitary exercises that are the norm for immigration sweeps during the current administration.<\/p>\n
Putting military troops into a city that under Lurie has seen total crime rates decrease by more than 26% this year \u2014 in every single category except for sex trafficking, and what\u2019s San Francisco without sex? \u2014 would have been a buffoonish, churlish, merely political authoritarian move.<\/p>\n
And, so far, the president has not rescinded his threat to randomly send troops to a California city whose residents, City Hall and Police Department do not want them.<\/p>\n
In a Fox News interview earlier this week, \u201cTrump said he was eyeing San Francisco next to send the National Guard, adding that he had \u2018unquestioned power\u2019 to do so under the Insurrection Act,\u201d CalMatters reports.<\/p>\n
But there is nothing like an insurrection in the city of\u00a0 San Francisco.<\/p>\n
Of course, neither were there insurrections in Los Angeles, Chicago, Portland or Washington, D.C., and that didn\u2019t stop Trump from sending the military into those American cities, though he didn\u2019t cite the Insurrection Act as an excuse in those deployments.<\/p>\n
In his talk-show threats against a city he doesn\u2019t like because it doesn\u2019t vote for him, he said: \u201cThe difference is I think they want us in San Francisco. San Francisco was truly one of the great cities of the world. And then 15 years ago it went wrong. It went woke.\u201d<\/p>\n
Does he truly believe the city should be under military occupation because so many of its residents support DEI schemes and other progressive programs?<\/p>\n
Lurie, a moderate Democrat and scion of the Levi\u2019s fortune, said sending in troops \u201cwill do nothing \u2026 to make our city safer.\u201d<\/p>\n
San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins in a CalMatters interview about the city\u2019s plunging crime rate said that the main worry with sending in large numbers for ICE raids was that they could spark a currently non-existent problem the president is eager for the city to have.<\/p>\n
\u201cThere has to be civil unrest in San Francisco, and what we know and have seen is that U.S. Customs, Border Control and ICE are being deployed first in a manner that creates chaos and provokes arrest,\u201d Jenkins said.<\/p>\n
Some of the \u201cfriends\u201d who asked Trump to call off the dogs were Marc Benioff, the CEO of the online giant Salesforce, a Trump political supporter who outraged other locals by recently saying he did want the National Guard in San Francisco, and later apologized and said he did not want troops in the city, and Jensen Huang, the president and chief executive of Nvidia, the chipmaking entity that has negotiated with Trump over his efforts to onshore more chips manufacturing.<\/p>\n
Lurie is handling the volatile situation with quiet aplomb, not an easy riser to the bait that is the president\u2019s constant provocations of American mayors.<\/p>\n
\u201cSan Francisco is on the rise,\u201d Lurie said on Thursday. \u201cWe appreciate that the president understands that we are the global hub for technology, and when San Francisco is strong, our country is strong.\u201d He is also said to have talked with the president about a post-pandemic tourism boom in the city.<\/p>\n
Staying calm and level-setting truths is the right way to handle a president who too often is anything but calm.<\/p>\n
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