ALAMEDA, Calif. (AP) — President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after speaking to the mayor, as protesters gathered outside a U.S. Coast Guard base where they were located.

Trump had been threatening to send the National Guard to the city to to quell crime and U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents began arriving in the region early in the day for a possible ramp up of immigration enforcement.

The president posted on social media that Mayor Daniel Lurie told him Wednesday night that the city was making progress in reducing crime. Trump said he agreed to let San Francisco keep trying on its own.

Several hundred people, many singing hymns and carrying signs saying, “Protect our neighbors” and “No ICE or troops in th

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