by Xueer Lu and Joe Eskenazi October 24, 2025 (MissionLocal.org)
Oakland Mayor Barbara Lee said in a press release on Friday that she has been told by Alameda County’s sheriff that ICE and border patrol operations have been called off for the rest of the Bay Area in addition to San Francisco.
“I spoke with Alameda County Sheriff Yesenia Sanchez, who confirmed through her communications with ICE that Border Patrol operations are cancelled for the greater Bay Area — which includes Oakland — at this time,” Lee said.
Mayor Daniel Lurie yesterday announced that an anticipated immigration enforcement action in San Francisco was abruptly curtailed by President Donald Trump, who also put out a statement on his Truth Social platform. While the president’s statement only mentioned San Francisco, today’s communiques from Bay Area leaders indicate the so-called “surge” will not imminently take place in any Bay Area locale.
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Lee also said she is aware of a shooting on Thursday at 10 p.m. near the entrance of the Coast Guard Island in Alameda, where border patrol agents had arrived early that morning and protesters amassed.
In a social media post on X, the Department of Homeland Security stated that a person driving a U-Haul truck backed up toward a line of Coast Guard security personnel outside of the base after being given verbal commands to stop the vehicle. The driver suddenly accelerated backwards toward the officers and the officers fired several shots at the truck.
The department stated in the post that the truck driver was “wounded in the stomach and is being held for mental health evaluation.”
No Coast Guard personnel were injured, two civilians were wounded but are expected to survive, and a bystander who was struck by a fragment and released from the hospital after treatment.
“The Oakland Police Department is assisting the Alameda Police Department in securing the perimeter of the scene. The FBI is the lead agency investigating the incident,” Lee said. “And I will continue to gather available information as it becomes accessible.”
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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Xueer Lu
I work on data and cover City Hall. I graduated from UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism with a Master’s Degree in May 2023. In my downtime, I enjoy cooking, photography, and scuba diving.More by Xueer Lu
Joe Eskenazi
Managing Editor/Columnist. Joe was born in San Francisco, raised in the Bay Area, and attended U.C. Berkeley. He never left.
“Your humble narrator” was a writer and columnist for SF Weekly from 2007 to 2015, and a senior editor at San Francisco Magazine from 2015 to 2017. You may also have read his work in the Guardian (U.S. and U.K.); San Francisco Public Press; San Francisco Chronicle; San Francisco Examiner; Dallas Morning News; and elsewhere.
He resides in the Excelsior with his wife and three (!) kids, 4.3 miles from his birthplace and 5,474 from hers.
The Northern California branch of the Society of Professional Journalists named Eskenazi the 2019 Journalist of the Year.More by Joe Eskenazi
