McLaughlin: ICE brokers might quickly be going to San Francisco

[ad_1] Division of Homeland Safety spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin mentioned Wednesday that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) brokers might quickly be headed to San Francisco.

McLaughlin mentioned in an interview with NewsNation's "The Hill," there can be "no secure haven in the USA, whether or not that be Los Angeles, Chicago, New York or San Francisco."

"We do have ICE officers on the bottom in San Francisco," she mentioned. "That is not a change in posture."

McLaughlin added {that a} "stepped-up presence" will be anticipated in San Francisco "and in any of those sanctuary cities."

When requested about ICE operations within the Bay Space metropolis, she mentioned she "cannot get too forward of ICE operations or [President Trump]." McLaughlin added that California Gov. Gavin Newsom "electorally must be very cautious."

"In Los Angeles and San Francisco, loads of these residents aren't completely happy together with his governance, whether or not or not it's over these wildfires or the crime we're seeing out of San Francisco," McLaughlin mentioned.

On Wednesday evening, Newsom mentioned he would sue the Trump administration ought to it ship federal brokers to San Francisco. The Trump administration had already introduced that it might ship 100 brokers from U.S. Customs and Border Safety and Coast Guard Base Alameda.

“We’re going to be fierce, we’re going to be targeted by way of our response,” Newsom mentioned at a press convention. “Fairly actually, that is the lawsuit that I'll file inside a nanosecond of any effort to ship the army to certainly one of America’s nice cities, San Francisco.”

The immigration officers are anticipated to reach on Thursday, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Trump introduced over the weekend that he would ship federal officers to San Francisco “and we’ll make it nice,” he instructed Fox Information.

State officers have labored to decrease town's crime price, particularly by calling on the California Freeway Patrol for intervention, together with within the wider San Francisco Bay space.

“Violent crime in San Francisco has fallen to ranges not seen because the Nineteen Fifties. Encampments are at report lows. San Francisco is popping the nook—due to public security,” Mayor Daniel Lurie (D) mentioned in a press release on the social media platform X.