Alameda in the news
I prefer to stay out of the news, but sometimes the news comes to us. For example, last month we learned, less than 24 hours in advance, of a federal deployment of immigration enforcement agents to Coast Guard Island Alameda (CGIA). CGIA is a human-made island in the Oakland Estuary, between Alameda and Oakland. Although located within Alameda city limits, CGIA is a secure, federally owned facility.
Protests of the deployment outside CGIA were largely peaceful until an individual attempted to back a U-Haul truck through barricades and onto CGIA and was shot by Coast Guard law enforcement officers and arrested.
Alameda County Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez’s Office later confirmed that the planned surge operation in the Bay Area had been called off, due in part, to a phone conversation between San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie and the President…