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Trump news at a glance: Trump scraps plan to send federal troops to San Francisco Bay Area

Protesters in the background of two cars blocking a road with 'Stop ICE' written on homemade stop signs
Protesters use cars to block the entrance to Coast Guard Island in Oakland, California, after earlier reports that Donald Trump planned to deploy federal troops to the area. Photograph: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images

Donald Trump has cancelled plans for a deployment of federal troops to the San Francisco Bay Area that had sparked widespread condemnation from California leaders and sent protesters flooding into the streets.

The region had been on edge after reports emerged on Wednesday that the Trump administration was poised to send more than 100 Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and other federal agents to the US Coast Guard base in Alameda, across the Bay from San Francisco, as part of a large-scale immigration enforcement plan.

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