Reports of a bevy of Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents heading to the Bay Area as soon as Thursday would be a realization of San Francisco leaders’ most pressing fears.
Numerous city officials told Mission Local the arrival of immigration agents is more serious and potentially destructive than the threatened incursion of armed National Guard troops.
CBP — or, for that matter, ICE — can deploy more rapidly and via a more streamlined procedure, municipalities have fewer tools with which to push back — and federal law-enforcement can engage in more aggressive and damaging behaviors than National Guardsmen once within cities…