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US President Donald Trump said he stopped federal action in San Francisco at the request of friends who live in the Bay Area and who vouched for the work of the city's Democratic mayor Daniel Lurie.

Mr Donald Trump said he stopped federal action in San Francisco at the request of friends who live in the Bay Area and who vouched for the work of the city's Democratic mayor Daniel Lurie.

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Heather Knight, Soumya Karlamangla, Shawn Hubler

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WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump announced on Oct 23 that he has called off the deployment of federal immigration agents to San Francisco, just as they were beginning to gather at a Coast Guard base in the Bay Area.

Mr Trump said in a post on Truth Social that he had stopped the federal action in San Francisco at the request of friends who live in the Bay Area and who vouched for the work of the city’s Democratic mayor Daniel Lurie.

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