South Bay civic leaders said they remain ready to support the region’s immigrant community after news broke Thursday morning that President Donald Trump is backing off plans to surge federal law enforcement personnel in the Bay Area.

“They’ve made the right decision. Our region is on the rise,” Mayor Matt Mahan said during the news conference at the Amigos de Guadalupe Center for Justice and Empowerment in East San Jose.

The event had initially been called in response to Wednesday news reports that the Trump administration planned to deploy more than 100 federal law enforcement personnel to a Coast Guard base in Alameda. The planned deployment, which was said to include immigration enforcement officers, was seen as an attempt to make good on Trump’s promise to crack down on crime in San

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