Former House Speaker Rep. Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., on Wednesday said that California state and local authorities “may arrest” agents from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) if they violate state law while conducting immigration raids in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The raids, which are expected to begin this week, have drawn widespread criticism from politicians and elected officials in California. President Donald Trump called the city “woke,” promising to “go” to the city and “make it great again.”

Pelosi, alongside fellow San Francisco-area Democratic Rep. Kevin Mullins, called the raids “an appalling abuse of power” and attacked the Trump administration in a statement on Wednesday.

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