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Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said Friday she was surprised to learn that the U.S. Coast Guard is looking to take control of a city-owned road and bridge to the agency’s Alameda base, where protests erupted last month over a planned immigration enforcement surge.
Lee told KQED that she found out about the Coast Guard’s request like everyone else: through the news, which the San Francisco Chronicle first reported.
“We have a large immigrant community in Oakland. We don’t cooperate with ICE. 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.”…