especially so they will not be seen during World Cup and 250th US Anniversary events. This is mass incarceration by another name.
https://www.osvnews.com/trumps-executive-order-seeks-to-remove-homeless-from-streets-via-civil-commitment/
"....In July 2019, during his first presidential term, Trump declared that an embarrassment: “When we have leaders of the world coming in to see the president of the United States and they’re riding down a highway, they can’t be looking at that.”
Executive order
On July 24 of this year [2025] , Trump signed a new executive order, “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets.” And while that sounds like a worthy goal, advocates say blaming the homeless unfairly and dangerously criminalizes being unhoused, mentally ill or addicted in America.
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It seems to be leaning into uncited science or perspectives about the failure of harm reduction and the failure of Housing First,” observed Kelly, who spent years working with Chicagoans experiencing homelessness. “It seems to be falling back into a regressive perspective that was more or less — both anecdotally and scientifically — proven to be ineffective in terms of really helping people, which is civil commitment.”... (more)
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