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The federal government seemed ready on Wednesday to deploy dozens of federal agents to the northern California for a major border security initiative, sparking outrage from California leaders.

Information of the Operation

Information of the deployment were still emerging, but it will reportedly involve over a hundred law enforcement personnel, based on information. The officers are reportedly set to begin occupying the Coast Guard facility in across the bay, across the bay from San Francisco. It remained unclear whether national guard troops would join the operation.

Political Reaction

The operation is the result of weeks of warnings by Donald Trump to focus on the liberal city. Governor Gavin Newsom condemned the action, calling it “straight from the dictator’s handbook”.

“He deploys unidentified officers, he sends out Border Patrol, he sends out immigration officials, he instills concern and apprehension in the population so that he can take credit for handling that by deploying the military forces,” Newsom said. “This mirrors the arsonist fighting the blaze.”

Municipal Readiness

San Francisco is the newest metropolitan center focused on by the federal effort of large-scale detentions. The mission is expected to trigger a confrontation between the federal government and municipal authorities who have pledged to block paramilitary operations in the city.

San Franciscans have been readying for months for Trump to carry out repeated threats to deploy forces to the city. At a Wednesday media briefing, San Francisco’s city leader stated again that the city was prepared.

“During this period, we have been expecting the possibility of an impending federal deployment in our city,” declared the leader, explaining that he had taken further executive actions on Wednesday to “enhance the city’s protection of our newcomer populations, and ensure our agencies are prepared before any federal deployment.”

Judicial Background

Regardless of legal challenges to missions in a multiple urban areas, including Chicago, Portland and Los Angeles, Trump has declared “complete control” to deploy the military forces in cities, referencing the federal statute which allows presidents specific authority to deploy troops on domestic land.

Public Preparation

Newsom, who previously served as San Francisco’s mayor – had vowed to intervene “right away” to a operation in the city. “The concept that the national administration can send forces into our cities with no valid reason based on facts, no monitoring, no accountability, no consideration of local authority – it’s a direct assault on the rule of law,” he said on Wednesday.

Public associations, including social justice nonprofits created during the first Trump administration, have prepared to rapidly assemble a large protest in the city, as well as peaceful assemblies at local libraries.

Local Effect

In San Francisco’s Mission neighborhood, a predominantly Latino community, elected official told reporters last week she and her residents had been anticipating this moment. “The point that employees avoid workplaces, when minority individuals can’t freely walk outside without the concern of Trump’s federal agents discriminating against and arresting them, the time when students avoid classrooms, are too scared to go to the supermarket or physician,” she said. “The readiness efforts in the Mission is essentially a halt the extent of which we have not witnessed since the health crisis.”

National Guard Condition

Approximately three hundred out of several thousand California national guard troops continue under national command under an order from Trump. About two hundred of them had been transferred to the neighboring state, where they were waiting in limbo during a court case over their deployment.

This time, Newsom said he had called the local soldiers under his command to staff distribution centers amid the government shutdown.