ICE chief: 800 avoided arrest due to Oakland mayor's warning
Mayor Libby Shaaf warned residents of large-scale immigration raids over the weekend
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AP Updated: 11:47 AM PST Feb 28, 2018
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) —
A top immigration official said Wednesday that about 800 people living illegally in Northern California were able to avoid arrest because of a weekend warning that Oakland Mayor Libby Schaaf put on Twitter.
"What she did is no better than a gang lookout yelling 'police' when a police cruiser comes in the neighborhood, except she did it to a whole community," Thomas Homan, the Immigration and Customs Enforcement acting chief, told "Fox and Friends."
The mayor warned residents over the weekend of large-scale, impending raids by immigration agents in the San Francisco Bay Area, escalating tensions between California officials and the Trump administration.
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