Trump order pushes local officials to clear unhoused people from streets | Trump administration

The federal government seeks to repress the homeless in the United States, with Donald Trump issuing an executive decree to push local governments to withdraw poorly married people from the street.

The ordinance that the American president signed on Thursday will ask for the “reversal of the previous federal or state judicial and the end of consent decrees” which restrict the capacity of local governments to force people to treatment for mental health and to redirect funds to support rehabilitation and treatment. The order aims to “restore public order”, claiming that “endemic vagabond, disorderly behavior, sudden confrontations and violent attacks have made our cities dangerous”, according to order.

The action occurs while the non-abry crisis in the United States has worsened considerably in recent years, driven by a generalized shortage of affordable housing. Last year, a day’s count, which is an approximate estimate, recorded more than 770,000 people with homelessness across the country, the highest figure ever documented.

Cities and states have adopted an increasingly punitive approach to homelessness, seeking to push people out of the city parks and streets, even when there is no shelter. The Supreme Court ruled last year that cities can impose fines and even prison terms for people who are incarcerated for sleeping outside after local governments argued that certain protections for non-thumbs have prevented them from taking measures to reduce the homeless.

Trump’s action aims to move people without housing to “long -term institutional environments for human treatment thanks to the appropriate use of civil engagement”, according to the order.

Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary, told USA TODAY, who reported for the first time on the decree, that the president “delivered his commitment to rendering America again” and to put an end to roaming.

“By removing vagrant criminals from our streets and redirecting resources to drug addiction programs, the Trump administration will guarantee that Americans feel safe in their own communities and that individuals suffering from dependence or mental health control are able to obtain the aid they need,” she said.

The National Homelessness Law Center condemned the order, which declared “deprives people of their fundamental rights” and would ultimately aggravate the problem.

“The current decrees, combined with the Maga budget cuts for housing and health care, will increase the number of people forced to live in tents, their cars and the streets. This order does nothing to reduce the cost of the accommodation or help people reach both ends, “said Jesse Rabinowitz of the National Homeless Law Center.

The president’s ordinance comes after the decision of the US Supreme Court of last year, which was one of the most consecutive legal decisions on homeless for decades in the United States.

This decision judged that it was not “a cruel and unusual punishment” to criminalize the campsite when there is no shelter available. The case is from Grants Pass, Oregon, a city that defended its efforts to continue people for sleeping in public.

Non-a lottical people in the United States have long faced repression and scans, with police policies and practices that result in the harassment of the police, tickets or prison. But the decision has supervised these kinds of aggressive responses, emblazoning cities and states to punish camp residents who have no other options for the refuge.

In a report last month, the American Civil Liberties Union noted that the Cities of the United States introduced more than 320 bills criminalizing non-thumbs, the majority of whom have passed. Repression took place in democratic and republican states.

The defenders of the rights of people without housing have long argued that criminalization only causes the housing crisis, people in prison and outside of prison or from one neighborhood to another, because they lose their property and their links with the providers, fall more in debt and end in increasingly unbeatable conditions.

During his campaign last year, Trump used dark rhetoric to talk about the humanitarian crisis, threatening to force people in “tents cities”, which makes fear that some of the poorest and most vulnerable Americans are found in remote places in establishments that resemble concentration camps.