Trump orders homeless evictions in DC

[jknowgood]

Who lives in yer lawn, an entire city block?

I'm not the one supporting illegals.

 

[Zincwarrior]

It is not empathetic to abandon these people to the streets to die.

How are evictions empathetic, or any different. Its just moving them some place else.

I'm not the one supporting illegals.

Homeless are not illegals.

 

[Rawley]

How are evictions empathetic, or any different. Its just moving them some place else.

Hopefully the next place they choose is a shelter or a treatment center.

 

[Delldude]

Who lives in yer lawn, an entire city block?

Grubs

 

[Rambunctious]

Where’s the money going to come from?

Investors... and government... it would be cheaper than what we have been doing... CA spent 250 million dollars on homelessness in 23 and 24... and it fixed nothing... and that doesn't include the costs of police and fire and paramedics that make contact with these people daily and hazmat folks cleaning up their camps... that money could go to cleaning these people up and giving them the medication and treatment they need... we pay one way or the other... unless you have a better idea...

 

[jknowgood]

How are evictions empathetic, or any different. Its just moving them some place else.



Homeless are not illegals.

Illegals have it better than homeless veterans. That's a fact.

 

[Foxfyre]

This is a sensitive subject. Some might be addicts, what about those who just lost the roof over the heads due to costs or circumstances beyond their control?

My opinion, this policy hurts him more than it helps him. No one likes seeing bullying of those with the least power in society. Build affordable housing or as far as I am concern it is a failure of government.

It is the failure of government that put these people on the street. Liberal Democrats, years ago, forced the government to eject people like these from facilities that were providing mental health and other services. Said it was unreasonable to confine non violent people to mental health institutions. But since they were unable to provide for themselves they wound up as the homeless.

I doubt there are many, if any at all, people in those street camps who are just unfortunate victims of losing their homes. I know a LOT of people who lost their homes due to economic downturns, real estate going underwater, loss of jobs or whatever. I don't know a one of those who chose to move into one of those awful street slums.

But neither should the rank and file citizen be required to have those camps in their communities where they harm businesses, property values, and crime does escalate.

Chances are, if ICE continues to eject illegals from our country, there will be sufficient homeless shelter beds for everybody. For those who refuse to take advantage of such shelters, they simply will have to find some legal place to establish their camps that won't be where they will interfere with quality of life for the rank and file citizen.

Meanwhile, efforts should be made to make it legal to reinstitutionalize all those who are incapable of taking care of themselves due to mental issues, addictions or other issues. Expect the Democrats to fight that concept tooth and nail though.

 

[JohnDB]

 

[DigitalDrifter]

Putting DC aside, homelessness is a state issue and should be dealt with as such. Leaving the problem to cities is about as stupid as one can be.

Yes, just like when Newsom ordered them swept off the streets in 2023 for Xi Ping's visit.

 

[fncceo]

In this video a Trump supporter expresses skepticism over the long-term result of deploying federal police and NG

Why?

Because the primary reason we have homeless people living on the streets is drug addiction and/or mental health issues

They need to be locked up and forced to confront their personal problems before real change takes place

Otherwise we are just playing Whack-a-Mole

Until we come to our collective senses and start treating mental health on an involuntary inpatient basis again, Whack A Mole is the only game in town.

We just need more whacks than moles… or force the moles into the blue holes where they love dangerous homeless.

 

[Mac-7]

In some cases, you are probably right. But if opportunity is there, then why are there so many young college grads who cannot afford homes or find jobs? And if they can't what chance or kind of job will a homeless person with issues have?

I think you mean they cant find the job they were expecting to get in some useless field of study

Engineers are in high demand

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[Dr.Destructo]

Well, Trumps is only in his first 7 months of office.
He can't do everything all at once.
For now, just keeping the homeless from living "where ever" is the problem. They are all directed to stay in certain areas, and a lot do not.

Trumps gotta deal with the illegal disease first. Then he can focus on the vets and the homeless.

Getting the allocations of tax payers monies sorted and reorganized takes a lot of time. Shutting down the criminal offices and organizations helps, but it's not just that. It's getting all those funds readjusted to the other offices and organizations that need it...........which I'm sure will be happening in late 2026, if his schedule isn't altered.

Trump is reorganizing an entire nations government. Not everything on the list is going to be positives. You gotta have a lot of negatives before you get the positive results. There's also a lot of give and take when readjusting any kind of social order system.

Now, if this were 2027, I'd say yeah......we're having problems....if we were still dealing with this. But Trump is imploding the old, clearing ground, and building a new foundation for what this country needs to have to work the way its supposed to.
In order to get to that point, not everything is going to be hunky dorey.

 

[toobfreak]

I think you mean they cant find the job they were expecting to get in some useless field of study

Why do you think that? Rationalization?

Engineers are in high demand

Oh goodie. One field out of 10,000, and a lot of engineers will lose their jobs to AI.

 

[Mac-7]

Oh goodie. One field out of 10,000, and a lot of engineers will lose their jobs to AI.

Its a pretty good

More useful and financially rewarding than Sociology or Women's Studies