The president called off a planned 'surge' of federal forces to San Francisco, but East Bay officials said they were still preparing for immigration action.

San Francisco Mayor Daniel Lurie said that President Donald Trump canceled federal troop deployment for immigration enforcement operations in the city.

President Donald Trump said Thursday that he’s backing off a planned surge of federal agents into San Francisco after speaking to the mayor, as protesters gathered outside a U.S. Coast Guard base where they were located.

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Trump wrote on social media that Mayor Daniel Lurie told him the city was making progress in reducing crime. The former president said he agreed to allow San Francisco to continue addressing the issue on its own for now.

City Lights Books, the North Beach landmark that helped define the Beat Generation, has revived founder Lawrence Ferlinghetti's 2007 poem "Pity the Nation."

Protests took place in Sacramento, the state's capital, and in several Bay Area cities. Organizers estimate thousands of people gathered for the demonstrations.