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From KQED. Welcome to Forum. I'm Alexis Madrigal. Okay, it seems like the Trump administration

is beginning to move new immigration enforcement into our area.

From a variety of sources, it is Customs and Border Patrol agents, and they're going to be stationed on Coast Guard Island.

If you're not familiar with it, it's a little tiny island, technically in Alameda, but it's connected to the mainland by a small road that hits the Oakland Embarcadero, a little south of Lake Merritt, a little north of Jingletown in Fruitvale. When I heard about where the CBP agents were headed, it became clear that protesters would target that road leading on and off the island. And indeed, by seven o'clock this morning, there were protesters there. We're joined

first this morning by Azul Dahlstrom-Eckman, who is on the scene there. Asul, thanks so much

for joining us. Yeah, good morning, Alexis. What's the scene like there right now?

So right now, it's peaceful. There's about 100 people kind of walking in a perimeter around the

intersection.

People have actually moved their personal cars, and they're also blocking the road on all

three sides that lead to the island. People say they're worried about future encroachments

by federal agents. I will say this protest does have some of the whimsy that we've seen

in other cities.

I see right now someone jumping rope in a Wonder Woman costume.

Any inflatables? Any frogs out there yet or not yet?

No inflatables. I haven't seen any inflatables.

There were some serious things that you heard from protesters that happened this morning, yeah?

Yeah, so I got here at about 745 AM and since then it's been peaceful, but I heard from multiple eyewitnesses that there were violent clashes between federal agents and protesters

here. One eyewitness told me that a, when they were trying to block access of federal

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