SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — The Trump administration is sending more than 100 federal agents to San Francisco, KRON4’s network partner NewsNation reported. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents began arriving Thursday morning and protesters attempted to block their vehicles from entering Coast Guard Island in Alameda.
Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said federal agents will be going into San Francisco “at the direction of the president.” ICE and CBP operate under DHS.
A CBP spokesperson told KRON4 Wednesday, “DHS is targeting the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens — including murderers, rapists, gang members, pedophiles, and terrorists — in cities such as Portland, Chicago, Memphis and San Francisco. As it does every day, DHS law enforcement will enforce the laws of our nation.”
A U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent confronts protesters blocking the entrance to the Coast Guard Island Alameda on Oct. 23, 2025. (Photo by Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
ICE keeps a list of recently detained undocumented immigrants whom the agency considers to be the “Worst of the Worst” criminals.
San Francisco leaders are vehemently against escalating immigration enforcement in their city.
Mayor Daniel Lurie said, “We don’t know exactly what the federal government is planning in San Francisco and across the Bay Area. But we do know this federal administration has a playbook. In cities across the country, masked immigration officials are deployed to use aggressive enforcement tactics that instill fear, so people don’t feel safe going about their daily lives.”
Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi wrote, “Reports of a planned mass immigration raid in the Bay Area are an appalling abuse of law enforcement power. Broad sweeps that target families and terrorize law-abiding residents betray our nation’s values.”
District Attorney Brooke Jenkins said she will prosecute federal agents who use excessive force in her city. “If a federal agent breaks the law, they must be held accountable,” Jenkins wrote.
Security members are seen by the bridge that leads to Coast Guard Island Alameda in Oakland on Oct. 22, 2025. (Photo by Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
San Francisco’s mayor said he received a phone call from President Trump late Wednesday night and spoke to Noem Thursday morning. Mayor Lurie said, “The president told me clearly that he was calling off any plans for a federal deployment in San Francisco. Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem reaffirmed that direction in our conversation. The president understands that we are the global hub for technology, and when San Francisco is strong, our country is strong.”
Lurie added, “My team will continue to monitor the situation closely, and our city remains prepared for any scenario.”
The mayor did not specify if Trump’s called-off “federal deployment” referred to the National Guard, ICE, CBP, or all three.
After President Trump’s phone call, ICE and CBP agents were dispatched to Coast Guard Island in Alameda Thursday and they were met by a growing wave of protesters.
Jorge Bautista, a clergyman with the United Church of Christ, reacts after he was hit in the face by a pepper round from a U.S. Customs and Border Protection agent as protesters blocks the entrance to Coast Guard Island Alameda in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. (Photo by Stephen Lam/San Francisco Chronicle via Getty Images)
Agents in tactical gear were seen getting out of their vehicles and shouting at hundreds of protesters to move out of the way — threatening that they would be run over. A pastor was hit in the face by what appeared to be a flash bang grenade.
Watch: Flash grenade goes off amid protesters at Coast Guard Island in Alameda
The U.S. Coast Guard is part of the Department of Homeland Security. A USCG spokesperson told KRON4, “The U.S. Coast Guard is providing facility support to Customs & Border Protection as requested. The Coast Guard is focused on ensuring safe and secure operations in support of federal partners.”
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