"On Thursday, after a phone call to Mayor Daniel Lurie reportedly arranged after a concerted lobbying effort by tech executives, President Donald Trump " called off " a planned immigration "surge" in San Francisco. Federal officials confirmed on Friday that the rest of the Bay Area would also be spared. That respite may not be forever. President Trump wrote in his post announcing the pullback that he and Lurie had spoken about the mayor's efforts to address crime, and that he was told Lurie is "making substantial progress.""
"If the feds do come back to the Bay Area, San Francisco may not be their first target. Other Bay Area cities are home to much larger populations of undocumented immigrants, according to data from the think tank Migration Policy Institute. While San Francisco is home to about 42,000 undocumented residents, Santa Clara County, which includes San Jose and Sunnyvale, is home to more than double that number: 119,000."
"San Francisco has only 9.5 percent of the undocumented migrants in the seven Bay Area counties for which the data is available. The same trend follows for the number of immigrants overall. According to 2024 data from the U.S. Census Bureau, some 811,000 foreign-born residents live in Santa Clara County and 584,000 in Alameda County. Meanwhile, around 283,000 live in San Francisco. In those three counties, 19 to 22 percent of foreign-born residents are naturalized U.S. citizens."
President Trump called off a planned immigration surge in San Francisco after a phone call with Mayor Daniel Lurie, and federal officials confirmed the rest of the Bay Area was spared. The president said Lurie is "making substantial progress" addressing crime and that he would "give him a chance." Other Bay Area counties host much larger undocumented populations: Santa Clara County (119,000) and Alameda County (103,000) exceed San Francisco's roughly 42,000. San Francisco accounts for 9.5 percent of undocumented migrants across seven counties, and Santa Clara and Alameda have substantially higher foreign-born populations.
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