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Now, a series of recent lawsuits is bringing renewed attention to his companies.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elder care advocates say Rechnitz’ companies are Exhibit A in how regulators at the Department of Public Health are failing some of California’s most vulnerable citizens.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 2021, a \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/projects/california-oversight-nursing-homes/\">CalMatters investigation\u003c/a> documented that the state Department of Public Health allowed Rechnitz and his companies to operate 18 nursing homes while delaying a decision on granting licenses to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The state had kept the license applications in a “pending” status for seven years after he acquired them. Rechnitz and his companies were allowed to continue operating five additional homes even after the state denied licenses to them.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12065130\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003ca href=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Shlomo-Rechnitz_AH_CM_01.jpeg\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12065130\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Shlomo-Rechnitz_AH_CM_01.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Shlomo-Rechnitz_AH_CM_01.jpeg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Shlomo-Rechnitz_AH_CM_01-160x107.jpeg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/Shlomo-Rechnitz_AH_CM_01-1536x1024.jpeg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Los Angeles entrepreneur Shlomo Rechnitz owns one of California’s largest nursing home chains. 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Gavin Newsom \u003ca href=\"https://calmatters.org/health/2022/09/nursing-home-licensing-bill/\">signed a law\u003c/a> meant to address the issue, but state regulators in 2023 granted Rechnitz’ companies the licenses to operate the homes just before the measure took effect.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Here are key takeaways from CalMatters’ most recent coverage:\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Newly licensed homes now subjects of patient lawsuits\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Several homes that received licenses in 2023 are now being sued by patients and their family members.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In February 2024, a Los Angeles County jury \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26277158-jury-verdict/\">awarded $2.34 million\u003c/a> to an 84-year-old nursing home resident named Betsy Jentz, finding that Country Villa Wilshire had violated her rights on 132 occasions, at times leading to serious injuries.[aside postID=news_12064768 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/008_KQED_LagunaHondaHospital_01312023_qed.jpg']This coming February, a jury in Shasta County is scheduled to hear a case against Windsor Redding, which is \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/21069802-complaint-2/\">accused of negligence\u003c/a> in the 2020 COVID-19 deaths of 24 patients.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another upcoming case involves 78-year-old Barbara Pendley, who allegedly died after \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26276972-pendley-complaint-fac-8-4-23/\">suffering severe dehydration\u003c/a> at \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26284983-northpoint-answer/\">North Point Healthcare & Wellness Centre\u003c/a> in Fresno.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And trial is scheduled to begin next spring in the case of a 79-year-old dementia patient, referred to as \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26284981-answer-to-cheryl-doe/\">Cheryl Doe\u003c/a>, who was \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26276978-doe-complaint-2-2-24/\">allegedly raped twice \u003c/a>at Windsor Healthcare Center of Oakland; a second case against the same facility alleges that \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26276976-williams-complaint-6-26-24/\">excessive sedation\u003c/a> of 64-year-old \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26284980-williams-defendants-answer-to-plaintiffs-complaint1455624141/\">Alando Williams\u003c/a> led to his death.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rechnitz and his companies have denied allegations in all of these cases.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It is accurate that nursing homes are the target of abusive lawsuits that accomplish nothing but depleting resources for patient care,” said Mark Johnson, an attorney for the facilities and their holding company, Brius.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>On average, more citations at Rechnitz homes\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>A CalMatters analysis of data from both the \u003ca href=\"https://www.cdph.ca.gov/Programs/CHCQ/LCP/CalHealthFind/Pages/Home.aspx\">state health department\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://data.cms.gov/provider-data/dataset/4pq5-n9py\">federal Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services\u003c/a> found 78 California facilities in which Shlomo Rechnitz or his wife, Tamar, were listed among the owners. On average the facilities fared poorly on several key quality metrics compared to the state overall.\u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cli>In the past three years, these 78 nursing homes received an average of 12.4 citations for facility-reported incidents, compared with 6.1 for all nursing homes statewide.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>A higher proportion of the facilities has received a federal fine in the last three years than the state’s overall rate. Two-thirds of these facilities received at least one federal fine in the last three years, compared to half of all facilities across the state.\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The facilities have been fined an average of $47,897 during the last three years, compared to an average of $29,573 for all California facilities.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cp>Johnson, the attorney for Rechnitz’ facilities, said in his email that a large percentage of these facilities are located in Los Angeles County, which issues deficiencies at a higher rate than any county in California, many of which are overturned on appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He also said that “Mr. Rechnitz’s facilities self-report at a significantly higher rate than other comparable facilities,” which, in turn, could lead them to have a higher number of deficiencies.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Rechnitz is wealthy\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>In August 2024, an Alameda County jury found that Alameda Healthcare & Wellness had violated the rights of 71-year-old James Doherty, Sr. \u003ca href=\"https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26092434-60650058-08-18-2025-special-verdict-form-1-from-jurors-v3/\">more than 1,400 times\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12064693 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251115-DEADLY-LUNG-DISEASE-MD-01-KQED-1.jpg']That included seven instances in which staff failed to transport him, causing him to miss chemotherapy treatments, court documents said. Doherty died following the development of a large pressure sore. His family was awarded $7.6 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another key revelation from that case: Rechnitz and his wife disclosed their net worth. According to financial documents filed in court, it comes to $786 million.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tony Chicotel, a senior staff attorney for California Advocates for Nursing Home Reform, said that dollar figure hasn’t been divulged publicly before.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“At least in some of these chains, the money that was meant to go for patient care is being stripped away and sent up top to the ownership,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>Advocates say the state is not doing its job\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Elder care advocates say the state Department of Public Health could push for greater accountability, including withholding licenses from owners they deem to be bad actors.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Wendy York, a Sacramento attorney specializing in nursing home abuse, said that watching elderly and disabled residents repeatedly suffer the same types of injuries in these facilities “feels like a broken record. 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That day, U.S. Border Patrol agents had arrived on the base ahead of a \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061209/lurie-trump-is-calling-off-plans-to-send-federal-troops-to-san-francisco\">planned “surge”\u003c/a> of immigration enforcement activity in San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the time, the Coast Guard said the Department of Homeland Security planned to use the base as a “\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061080/federal-border-agents-to-arrive-in-bay-area-as-cities-brace-for-enforcement-surge\">place of operation\u003c/a>.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Their arrival that morning sparked protests across the Bay Area, including at the intersection of Dennison Street and Embarcadero in Oakland, which leads onto the base’s single access bridge. For hours, hundreds of activists tried to block vehicles from driving on or off the island, though most dispersed in the afternoon after California Highway Patrol cleared the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly before 10 p.m., prosecutors say, Thompson arrived at the intersection, where a few dozen protesters remained. Prosecutors allege she reversed the truck onto the bridge and defied orders to stop.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12062874\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12062874\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/UHaulCoastGuardAlamedaAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/UHaulCoastGuardAlamedaAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/UHaulCoastGuardAlamedaAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/UHaulCoastGuardAlamedaAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Police officers examine a U-Haul truck involved in a shooting at the entrance to Coast Guard Base Alameda, according to an officer at the scene, Friday, Oct. 24, 2025, in Oakland, California. \u003ccite>(Noah Berger/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>They say Coast Guard personnel feared for their lives and opened fire on the truck, striking Thompson and a bystander.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Thompson drove off but was detained later that night at Highland Hospital in Oakland, where she was being treated for a gunshot wound to the back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The order to release Thompson pending trial on Thursday comes a week after she appeared in court for a bail hearing that was sealed to the public, since defense attorneys said it would include discussion of her mental health diagnosis and medical and hospitalization information.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to federal prosecutors, she returned to the court on Thursday for further proceedings and was ultimately granted bail. They moved to pause Thompson’s release that day, saying they planned to appeal the decision.[aside postID=news_12063471 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251023-MAYOR-LEE-PRESSER-MD-02_qed.jpg']Prosecutors had argued that Thompson should remain in custody pending trial, calling her a “danger to the community” and citing her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063898/suspected-u-haul-driver-tried-to-flee-hospital-after-coast-guard-shooting-police-report-says\">attempt to flee detention\u003c/a> on the night of her arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police reports, Thompson tried to escape Alameda police officers at Highland Hospital after asking to use the restroom. Officers wrote that they tackled her to the ground and handcuffed her to a gurney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, Thompson was transferred to John George Psychiatric Hospital and underwent a mental health evaluation. She was later placed on a 72-hour involuntary psychiatric hold before being booked into Santa Rita Jail in Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The conditions of release currently set — which include release to a ‘partial hospitalization plan’ — are insufficient to ensure the safety of the community,” the government’s motion read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Judge Casey Pitts late Thursday granted a temporary delay on her release until 4 p.m. Friday. Normally, that order would have required Thompson to remain in custody until it expired or Pitts issued a further instruction, but she was released around 2:30 a.m. Friday, according to her attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063909\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251024-CoastGuard-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251024-CoastGuard-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251024-CoastGuard-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251024-CoastGuard-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Law enforcement agents stand at the intersection of Dennison Street and Embarcadero in front of Coast Guard Island in Oakland on Oct. 24, 2025, following a shooting late last night in which security personnel opened fire on a U-Haul near the base. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a motion they filed Friday morning opposing the delay of Thompson’s release, attorneys Elisse Larouche and Kaitlyn Frysek wrote that the government did not make a strong case that her release posed a danger to the community, citing that she had no criminal record and would be required to reside with her parents in Southern California pending trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also wrote that delaying bail would delay Thompson’s participation in a mental health treatment program 25 hours per week beginning Monday, and could cause potential harm to her mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pitts vacated the temporary delay of release on Friday morning, writing that it was not warranted since Thompson had been released from custody and “a judge had ‘appropriately tailored’ the conditions of release ‘to avoid risk to the community’” pending appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Prosecutors had argued that Thompson should remain in custody pending trial, calling her a “danger to the community” and citing her \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12063898/suspected-u-haul-driver-tried-to-flee-hospital-after-coast-guard-shooting-police-report-says\">attempt to flee detention\u003c/a> on the night of her arrest.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to police reports, Thompson tried to escape Alameda police officers at Highland Hospital after asking to use the restroom. Officers wrote that they tackled her to the ground and handcuffed her to a gurney.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That night, Thompson was transferred to John George Psychiatric Hospital and underwent a mental health evaluation. She was later placed on a 72-hour involuntary psychiatric hold before being booked into Santa Rita Jail in Dublin.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The conditions of release currently set — which include release to a ‘partial hospitalization plan’ — are insufficient to ensure the safety of the community,” the government’s motion read.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>District Judge Casey Pitts late Thursday granted a temporary delay on her release until 4 p.m. Friday. Normally, that order would have required Thompson to remain in custody until it expired or Pitts issued a further instruction, but she was released around 2:30 a.m. Friday, according to her attorneys.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12063909\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12063909\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251024-CoastGuard-01-BL_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251024-CoastGuard-01-BL_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251024-CoastGuard-01-BL_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/251024-CoastGuard-01-BL_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Law enforcement agents stand at the intersection of Dennison Street and Embarcadero in front of Coast Guard Island in Oakland on Oct. 24, 2025, following a shooting late last night in which security personnel opened fire on a U-Haul near the base. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a motion they filed Friday morning opposing the delay of Thompson’s release, attorneys Elisse Larouche and Kaitlyn Frysek wrote that the government did not make a strong case that her release posed a danger to the community, citing that she had no criminal record and would be required to reside with her parents in Southern California pending trial.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They also wrote that delaying bail would delay Thompson’s participation in a mental health treatment program 25 hours per week beginning Monday, and could cause potential harm to her mental health.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Pitts vacated the temporary delay of release on Friday morning, writing that it was not warranted since Thompson had been released from custody and “a judge had ‘appropriately tailored’ the conditions of release ‘to avoid risk to the community’” pending appeal.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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"content": "\u003cp>After a year of testing and tooling around \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/san-francisco\">San Francisco\u003c/a> city streets, Zoox announced it is making its robotaxis available to the public, starting with free rides for those who join a waitlist.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Zoox’s green vehicles are eye-catching. They aren’t built like cars. They have no steering wheel or pedals, all four seats face inward and some people refer to them as toasters on wheels.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They’re notable in another way, too. They’re \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfAt803DQMw\">manufactured in Hayward\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As factory jobs continue their decades-long decline across the country, the East Bay is doubling down on precision manufacturing, betting its proximity to Silicon Valley’s labs and talent pools will help lift a slumping industrial base into a new era. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Hundreds of protesters tried for hours to block the intersection of Embarcadero and Dennison Street in Oakland, which leads to the single bridge access onto Coast Guard Island. One officer threw what appeared to be a flash-bang grenade into the crowd, another exited their vehicle and shot pepper powder at a local faith leader trying to block the road, and a van drove over the ankle of an organizer who was trying to speak with the agents inside, according to activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the early afternoon, California Highway Patrol cleared the majority of the crowd, arresting two people who refused to disperse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the criminal complaint against Thompson, the U-Haul truck arrived at the intersection hours later, shortly before 10 p.m. The driver — later identified as Thompson — got out of the vehicle and joined a few dozen remaining protesters for about five minutes before returning to the truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the truck lined up facing away from the bridge, video footage shows it begin to slowly reverse, course correct and accelerate backward as officers shout repeated orders to stop, according to the complaint. Officers then opened fire on the truck.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the initial gunshots, the truck reversed more quickly for another few seconds before coming to a halt and quickly pulling forward. It appeared to pause for about 30 seconds at the intersection leading off the bridge before driving away.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After her detention at Highland Hospital, Thompson was transferred to John George Psychiatric Hospital for a psychiatric evaluation.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The police report said she was later placed on a 72-hour involuntary psychiatric hold by a different agency, whose identity was redacted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She’s currently being held without bail on the federal charge and is due in court on Friday for a bail hearing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jsmall\">\u003cem>Julie Small\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ahall\">\u003cem>Alex Hall\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>",
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This is something that we’re looking at and trying to understand what they’re talking about and why they would even think about doing this here,” she said. “They never called me.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a Monday email to Brendan Moriarty, Oakland’s director of real estate and special projects, Coast Guard Lt. Cmdr. 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The suspected driver has \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12062859/suspected-u-haul-driver-charged-with-assaulting-federal-officers-after-bay-area-protest\">been charged\u003c/a>.[aside postID=news_12062859 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/11/UHaulCoastGuardAlamedaAP.jpg']Sean Maher, a city spokesperson, said the request to give up the land would require review and City Council approval.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the Coast Guard may already have an ally on Oakland City Council. Noel Gallo, whose district includes the road to the island, told KQED on Friday that he has been meeting with the Coast Guard “on a regular basis” and is willing to consider the request in exchange for “their help” with issues in their vicinity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This includes a nascent idea to build a $25 million housing project for veterans near Union Point Park, south of the approach that the Coast Guard hopes to annex. 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"content": "\u003cp>Two people have been arrested at the entrance to Alameda’s Coast Guard Island Thursday, where hundreds of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/tag/bay-area\">Bay Area\u003c/a> residents have been stationed for hours, protesting the Trump administration’s deployment of U.S. Customs and Border Protection to Coast Guard Base Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Agents began arriving early Thursday morning, according to activists, as part of President Donald Trump’s long-anticipated expansion of \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061080/federal-border-agents-to-arrive-in-bay-area-as-cities-brace-for-enforcement-surge\">immigration enforcement operations in the Bay Area\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Protesters said they began picketing at the intersection near the sole access bridge to the Coast Guard base overnight, before San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and President Donald Trump announced Thursday that a planned federal “surge” into San Francisco this weekend had been called off.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president has not addressed other Bay Area cities, which remain on high alert, or clarified what this means for the CBP officers who arrived in the East Bay early Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 2:30 p.m., organizers called on protesters to disperse and reconvene at Fruitvale Station in East Oakland around 4 p.m., after California Highway Patrol officers said they would arrest people who didn’t clear the intersection to allow civilians working on the island to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061195\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Coast Guard security stand guard as demonstrators gather in front of the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some protesters refusing to move have engaged in an ongoing standoff with the law enforcement officials. By 3 p.m., CHP had largely cleared the middle of the intersection, but many people remained on the sides of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions first flared early Thursday morning, when around six marked CBP vans were able to enter the base shortly before 7 a.m. One official threw what appeared to be a flash-bang grenade into the crowd, and a van drove over the ankle of an organizer who was attempting to speak with the agents inside, according to activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another agent exited their vehicle and shot pepper powder at a local faith leader attempting to block the road, according to Penny Nixon, with the Peninsula Solidarity Cohort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061204\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1377\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED-1536x1058.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In an aerial view, U.S. Coast Guard personnel stand guard at the entrance to Coast Guard Island as protesters block the road on Oct. 23, 2025, in Oakland. Federal agents have arrived in the San Francisco Bay Area for immigration operations. \u003ccite>(Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“He [the reverend] was saying, ‘I come in peace’ in front of a car and an [immigration] agent geared up, masked, got out of the car, raised his weapon and shot,” she said. “What they are doing is immoral. It is anti-American, anti-democracy. But more than anything, it is immoral.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement Friday that law enforcement provided “ample notice” to clear the street and “used appropriate force to clear the area for the safety of law enforcement.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Purposefully impeding access to federal buildings and law enforcement is dangerous and is not peacefully protesting,” a spokesperson said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smaller scuffles continued throughout the morning, but most of the protest was calm, with a steady flow of people joining and leaving the picket line at the intersection at the base’s access bridge. Alameda resident Nadine Skinner stopped by on her lunch break with apple strudels and beignets for the protesters who’d been standing in the streets for hours.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“For those who are still here staying, I want to support them and support our community,” she told KQED. “It’s hungering work protecting your community.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Disruption is a way to send a message … and right now, what’s going on is that ICE is not welcome in the Bay,” said Melanie Jasper, who’s been at the protest since 8:30 a.m.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>She said that after at least some federal agents have accessed the island: “We don’t want to let them off their s—-y little island. If they want to hang out there, they can. They can’t come into our community.”[aside postID=news_12061209 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/06/20250428_WarrantlessSearches_GC-29_qed.jpg']Just after 12:30 p.m., California Highway Patrol officers arrived, saying they needed to keep access on and off the island open after emergency personnel had been unable to get through in response to an earlier 911 call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Andrew Barclay, CHP spokesperson, said the agency “supports peoples’ right to First Amendment speech, protected protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, protesters appeared to abide by CHP’s request, moving cars out of their way while continuing to sing hymns, bang drums and play music. But after CHP threatened to begin making arrests if protesters did not move around 2:30 p.m., organizers called on the crowd to disperse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest in Oakland has been the first of many expected in the Bay Area in response to the immigration officials’ arrival. Hundreds also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061227/not-today-sf-officials-activists-vow-to-mobilize-against-immigration-enforcement\">gathered on the steps of San Francisco’s City Hall \u003c/a>Thursday afternoon to oppose immigration enforcement in the city after the dispatch triggered fears that Trump was following through on promises to ramp up operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra, 25, arrived at the demonstration shortly before noon. She said she planned to stay for a few hours before heading into San Francisco for another rally planned this evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I come from a family of mixed-status people,” said Sandra, an East Bay resident and DACA recipient. “I wake up, it’s on my mind. Go to sleep, it is on my mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather in front of the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just the everyday fear, like constantly having to remind your family members that they have rights, constantly having to remind people not to open the doors … I have family members who are scared to go to the grocery store, scared to get gas, scared to go get water. Basic necessities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the summer, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CBP officers have ramped up local enforcement operations, moving to have undocumented immigrants’ asylum cases dismissed and making detentions outside of courtrooms and ICE field offices. The move was unprecedented prior to the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like an invasion,” said Oakland resident Sonia Diermayer, who was at the Oakland protest earlier Thursday morning. “It feels as if the federal government is basically invading our communities to spread terrorism and fear, and it’s working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent expanded immigration enforcement in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Portland, Oregon, has been followed by Trump sending National Guard troops to the cities. Though he has cited alleged crime spikes and violent protests against immigration enforcement operations as justification, with little evidence to show for it, the rollouts of federal troops have all targeted Democrat-led cities and raised criticisms of abuse of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last few weeks, Trump has set his eyes on the Bay Area, and specifically San Francisco, as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060875/san-francisco-prepares-necessary-legal-action-if-trump-deploys-national-guard\">next target for National Guard deployment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061200\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A used flash-bang device lies on the ground near the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s the authoritarian playbook,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said during a press conference Wednesday. “For this administration, you send first masked men to the cities that you want to militarize … communities are torn asunder, it creates anxiety and stress, and that manifests into expressions of free speech. And then you use those expressions and those images as the justification to send the guard and suppress free speech, suppress free expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie and Trump confirmed that plans for a federal “surge” into San Francisco Saturday were called off after late-night conversations between the president, his “friends in the city” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060874/behind-benioffs-call-for-national-guard-troops\">including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff \u003c/a>— and Lurie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spoke to Mayor Lurie last night and he asked, very nicely, that I give him a chance to see if he can turn it around,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Thursday. “The people of San Francisco have come together on fighting Crime, especially since we began to take charge of that very nasty subject.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie did not provide any information about other Bay Area cities while speaking to reporters Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be really disturbing to me if Lurie didn’t have an agreement with the other mayors of the Bay Area … to make sure that we are united in stopping ICE from harming our communities,” said Michelle Mascarenhas, who was among the protesters. “That’s what I would be concerned about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan said in a social media statement that Trump did the “right thing” by calling off the deployment in San Francisco, adding that the South Bay city was the “safest big city in the nation because of the trust built between our police officers and our residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how to keep our community safe — and we will continue to do so regardless of immigration status,” he wrote on\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MattMahanSJ/status/1981412777911865527?t=qqjRBZu7SkBmsQvQfGicvQ&s=19\"> X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said at a press conference Thursday that her office hasn’t received any information and will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061224/oakland-braces-for-possible-federal-action-after-san-francisco-dodges-trumps-attention\">continue to prepare\u003c/a>. On Wednesday, Lee said the city “remains a proud sanctuary city committed to standing with our immigrant families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to have a clean conscience for the future generations after,” Diermayer said. “That I’ve done my part. For my grandchildren, and children, and nieces and nephews … I want to give them some hope that there’s a future for them here in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ebaldassari\">\u003cem>Erin Baldassari\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/abandlamudi\">\u003cem>Adhiti Bandlamudi\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The president has not addressed other Bay Area cities, which remain on high alert, or clarified what this means for the CBP officers who arrived in the East Bay early Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Around 2:30 p.m., organizers called on protesters to disperse and reconvene at Fruitvale Station in East Oakland around 4 p.m., after California Highway Patrol officers said they would arrest people who didn’t clear the intersection to allow civilians working on the island to leave.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061195\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061195\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-02-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">U.S. Coast Guard security stand guard as demonstrators gather in front of the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Some protesters refusing to move have engaged in an ongoing standoff with the law enforcement officials. By 3 p.m., CHP had largely cleared the middle of the intersection, but many people remained on the sides of the road.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Tensions first flared early Thursday morning, when around six marked CBP vans were able to enter the base shortly before 7 a.m. One official threw what appeared to be a flash-bang grenade into the crowd, and a van drove over the ankle of an organizer who was attempting to speak with the agents inside, according to activists.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another agent exited their vehicle and shot pepper powder at a local faith leader attempting to block the road, according to Penny Nixon, with the Peninsula Solidarity Cohort.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061204\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061204\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1377\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED-160x110.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/GETTYIMAGES-2242801100-KQED-1536x1058.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">In an aerial view, U.S. Coast Guard personnel stand guard at the entrance to Coast Guard Island as protesters block the road on Oct. 23, 2025, in Oakland. 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But more than anything, it is immoral.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The Department of Homeland Security said in a statement Friday that law enforcement provided “ample notice” to clear the street and “used appropriate force to clear the area for the safety of law enforcement.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Purposefully impeding access to federal buildings and law enforcement is dangerous and is not peacefully protesting,” a spokesperson said via email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Smaller scuffles continued throughout the morning, but most of the protest was calm, with a steady flow of people joining and leaving the picket line at the intersection at the base’s access bridge. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>Just after 12:30 p.m., California Highway Patrol officers arrived, saying they needed to keep access on and off the island open after emergency personnel had been unable to get through in response to an earlier 911 call.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sgt. Andrew Barclay, CHP spokesperson, said the agency “supports peoples’ right to First Amendment speech, protected protest.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Initially, protesters appeared to abide by CHP’s request, moving cars out of their way while continuing to sing hymns, bang drums and play music. But after CHP threatened to begin making arrests if protesters did not move around 2:30 p.m., organizers called on the crowd to disperse.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The protest in Oakland has been the first of many expected in the Bay Area in response to the immigration officials’ arrival. Hundreds also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061227/not-today-sf-officials-activists-vow-to-mobilize-against-immigration-enforcement\">gathered on the steps of San Francisco’s City Hall \u003c/a>Thursday afternoon to oppose immigration enforcement in the city after the dispatch triggered fears that Trump was following through on promises to ramp up operations.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sandra, 25, arrived at the demonstration shortly before noon. She said she planned to stay for a few hours before heading into San Francisco for another rally planned this evening.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I come from a family of mixed-status people,” said Sandra, an East Bay resident and DACA recipient. “I wake up, it’s on my mind. Go to sleep, it is on my mind.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061197\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061197\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-04-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Demonstrators gather in front of the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s just the everyday fear, like constantly having to remind your family members that they have rights, constantly having to remind people not to open the doors … I have family members who are scared to go to the grocery store, scared to get gas, scared to go get water. Basic necessities.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Throughout the summer, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CBP officers have ramped up local enforcement operations, moving to have undocumented immigrants’ asylum cases dismissed and making detentions outside of courtrooms and ICE field offices. The move was unprecedented prior to the Trump administration.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It feels like an invasion,” said Oakland resident Sonia Diermayer, who was at the Oakland protest earlier Thursday morning. “It feels as if the federal government is basically invading our communities to spread terrorism and fear, and it’s working.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Recent expanded immigration enforcement in Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Portland, Oregon, has been followed by Trump sending National Guard troops to the cities. Though he has cited alleged crime spikes and violent protests against immigration enforcement operations as justification, with little evidence to show for it, the rollouts of federal troops have all targeted Democrat-led cities and raised criticisms of abuse of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the last few weeks, Trump has set his eyes on the Bay Area, and specifically San Francisco, as the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060875/san-francisco-prepares-necessary-legal-action-if-trump-deploys-national-guard\">next target for National Guard deployment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12061200\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12061200\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251023-COASTGUARD-08-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A used flash-bang device lies on the ground near the entrance to a U.S. Coast Guard base in Oakland on Oct. 23, 2025. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s the authoritarian playbook,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said during a press conference Wednesday. “For this administration, you send first masked men to the cities that you want to militarize … communities are torn asunder, it creates anxiety and stress, and that manifests into expressions of free speech. And then you use those expressions and those images as the justification to send the guard and suppress free speech, suppress free expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie and Trump confirmed that plans for a federal “surge” into San Francisco Saturday were called off after late-night conversations between the president, his “friends in the city” — \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060874/behind-benioffs-call-for-national-guard-troops\">including Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff \u003c/a>— and Lurie.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I spoke to Mayor Lurie last night and he asked, very nicely, that I give him a chance to see if he can turn it around,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social Thursday. “The people of San Francisco have come together on fighting Crime, especially since we began to take charge of that very nasty subject.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lurie did not provide any information about other Bay Area cities while speaking to reporters Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It would be really disturbing to me if Lurie didn’t have an agreement with the other mayors of the Bay Area … to make sure that we are united in stopping ICE from harming our communities,” said Michelle Mascarenhas, who was among the protesters. “That’s what I would be concerned about.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San José Mayor Matt Mahan said in a social media statement that Trump did the “right thing” by calling off the deployment in San Francisco, adding that the South Bay city was the “safest big city in the nation because of the trust built between our police officers and our residents.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We know how to keep our community safe — and we will continue to do so regardless of immigration status,” he wrote on\u003ca href=\"https://x.com/MattMahanSJ/status/1981412777911865527?t=qqjRBZu7SkBmsQvQfGicvQ&s=19\"> X\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said at a press conference Thursday that her office hasn’t received any information and will \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061224/oakland-braces-for-possible-federal-action-after-san-francisco-dodges-trumps-attention\">continue to prepare\u003c/a>. On Wednesday, Lee said the city “remains a proud sanctuary city committed to standing with our immigrant families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I want to have a clean conscience for the future generations after,” Diermayer said. “That I’ve done my part. For my grandchildren, and children, and nieces and nephews … I want to give them some hope that there’s a future for them here in America.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/ebaldassari\">\u003cem>Erin Baldassari\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/abandlamudi\">\u003cem>Adhiti Bandlamudi\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cp>Federal agents are set to arrive in Alameda this week as part of a major \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/immigration\">immigration\u003c/a> enforcement operation in the Bay Area, the U.S. Coast Guard confirmed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda’s Coast Guard base will serve as a “place of operation” for the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency, a spokesperson said, as President Donald Trump continues to crack down on undocumented immigration with expanded raids and surges of federal officers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The support of [Department of Homeland Security] agencies continues the Coast Guard’s action to provide its unique authorities and capabilities as part of [the] government’s approach to control, secure and defend U.S. borders and maritime approaches by dismantling transnational criminal organizations, including drug and human smuggling operations, narcoterrorists and other hostile activity before they reach the border,” the spokesperson said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alameda County Supervisor Nikki Fortunato Bas told KQED that Trump is sending 60 to 100 Border Patrol agents, who are expected to begin arriving at the base as soon as Thursday.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Elsewhere, expanded immigration enforcement has been followed by Trump sending \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12058799/trumps-national-guard-moves-are-part-of-a-dangerous-plan-california-ag-warns\">National Guard troops\u003c/a> to cities such as Los Angeles, Washington, D.C., Chicago and Portland, Oregon. Though he has cited alleged crime spikes and violent protests against immigration enforcement operations as justification, with little evidence to show for it, the deployments have all targeted Democrat-led cities and raised criticisms of abuse of power.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For weeks, he has also \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060033/trump-calls-out-san-francisco-as-next-target-for-national-guard-deployment\">threatened to expand his operation\u003c/a> to the Bay Area.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12054634\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12054634\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/GavinNewsomAP-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gov. Gavin Newsom at a press conference to discuss the measures to redraw the state’s Congressional districts and put new maps before voters in a special election, in Sacramento, California, on Aug. 21, 2025. \u003ccite>(Rich Pedroncelli/AP Photo)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“It’s the authoritarian playbook,” Gov. Gavin Newsom said during a press conference Wednesday. “For this administration, you send first masked men to the cities that you want to militarize … communities are torn asunder, it creates anxiety and stress, and that manifests into expressions of free speech. And then you use those expressions and those images as the justification to send the guard and suppress free speech, suppress free expression.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Since May, Immigration and Customs Enforcement and CBP officials have been \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12041473/unprecedented-ice-officers-operating-inside-bay-area-immigration-courts-lawyers-say\">escalating operations\u003c/a> throughout the Bay Area, moving to have undocumented immigrants’ asylum cases dismissed and arresting them outside of courtrooms and ICE field offices.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>More than 2,000 people were arrested in San Francisco’s “Area of Responsibility” between January and July 2025, \u003ca href=\"https://missionlocal.org/2025/07/ice-data-immigrants-arrested-sf/\">according to \u003cem>Mission Local.\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local rapid response networks said Wednesday that they were prepared to respond to heightened immigration enforcement in the region.[aside postID=news_12061106 hero='https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/10/251007_Urban-Alchemy-Rally_-2_qed-1.jpg']Alameda County is activating emergency operations, according to Centro Legal de La Raza attorney Lourdes Martinez, and would be operating its Immigration Legal and Education Partnership hotline through the weekend.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Milli Atkinson, the director of the Immigrant Legal Defense Program with the Bar Association of San Francisco, said the city’s rapid response network was also aware of the potential for increased operations targeting San Francisco and is “prepared to respond from a place of power, not panic.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice will also provide attorney activation for rapid response networks in the region, according to communications manager Alex Mensing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Local political leaders were also quick to respond to the news Wednesday, including San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie, who offered his most forceful rejection of the Trump administration in a virtual press conference, saying he had \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12061106/sf-mayor-directs-police-to-protect-immigrants-protestors-ahead-of-anticipated-raids\">signed an emergency directive\u003c/a> to build on the city’s preparation for possible federal troop deployment and was activating the Department of Emergency Management.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>He urged anyone who protests to do so peacefully.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In Oakland, Mayor Barbara Lee said the city “remains a proud sanctuary city committed to standing with our immigrant families.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“We will notify our community with as much information as possible about any federal deployment,” she said in a statement. “Real public safety comes from Oakland-based solutions, not federal military occupation.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12055135\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12055135\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250814-OaklandPushback-10_qed.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250814-OaklandPushback-10_qed.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250814-OaklandPushback-10_qed-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/09/250814-OaklandPushback-10_qed-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mayor Barbara Lee speaks during a press conference at Oakland City Hall in Oakland on Aug. 14, 2025, condemning President Trump’s recent remarks about Oakland. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Based on what they’re doing in other parts of the country, we certainly are going to be very vigilant around places where there may be large numbers of our immigrant community members,” Fortunato Bas said. “We have your back, and we are going to work very hard to defend the rights of our immigrant community members.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/sf-immigration-operation-21114328.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">San Francisco Chronicle\u003c/a>\u003c/em> first reported that the Trump administration had dispatched federal agents to Alameda.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the officials arriving on Wednesday aren’t members of the National Guard, the planned deployment comes after Trump told Fox News on Sunday that he planned to make San Francisco his next target for federal military deployment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060875/san-francisco-prepares-necessary-legal-action-if-trump-deploys-national-guard\">City Attorney David Chiu\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12060755/bonta-says-state-is-ready-vows-to-sue-in-minutes-if-trump-sends-troops-to-sf\">Attorney General Rob Bonta\u003c/a> have already vowed to take legal action immediately should troops be sent to San Francisco.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12024429\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12024429\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/01/250128-SFImmigration-05-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, 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The law allows the president to federalize state National Guard units and deploy federal troops to cities during times of heightened civil disorder or insurrection, giving him “unquestioned power,” he said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Everybody agrees you’re allowed to use that [the Insurrection Act] and there are no more court cases, there is no more anything. We’re trying to do it in a nicer manner, but we can always use the Insurrection Act,” he said on Fox News’ \u003ca href=\"https://www.foxnews.com/video/6383070885112\">\u003cem>Sunday Morning Futures\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem>.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_12051925\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12051925 size-full\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/10/2025/08/GettyImages-2229572233-scaled-e1756854510343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1334\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President Donald Trump answers questions during a press conference in the James S. Brady Press Briefing Room of the White House on Aug. 11, 2025, in Washington, D.C. Trump announced he will use his authority to place the D.C. 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Remain peaceful.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Oakland and [Alameda] County have a long history of protests and social justice, and we know how to protest peacefully and make our voices heard,” Fortunato Bas said. “It’s going to be very important to have a united voice that we do not support any federal deployment in our cities. We do not support increased immigration raids. And we will protest them and do that peacefully.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/tychehendricks\">\u003cem>Tyche Hendricks\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> and \u003c/em>\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/author/jlara\">\u003cem>Juan Carlos Lara\u003c/em>\u003c/a>\u003cem> contributed to this report.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n",
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