Reports of a bevy of Immigration and Customs Enforcement and 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.

ICE and CBP 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.

Mayor Daniel Lurie is planning to address the public on the developing news at 2 p.m.

He said on Tuesday that he has set up a task for

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