President Trump Thursday morning called off a planned deployment of federal immigration agents to San Francisco. He said in a social media post that he had stopped action in San Francisco “at the request of friends who live in the Bay Area,” The New York Times reports, who vouched for the work of the city’s Democratic mayor, Daniel Lurie.

The move came just as the agents were beginning to gather at the Alameda Coast Guard base in the bay.

It’s all something of a feint, because earlier this very week, it wasn’t ICE agents the president was threatening to set loose on Baghdad by the Bay — it was the National Guard. Which would be an occupation far more disruptive to the citizenry of the city and the people of California than even the formerly planned, amped-up, macho paramilitary exercises

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