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Trump strategy to end rampant homelessness has left crying ‘internment camps!’

April 19, 2023 | | Print Article

Donald Trump, the leading candidate to be the 2024 Republican nominee, announced his plan to address homelessness in a video released on Tuesday that had the left crying about “Trump Internment Camps.”

The homeless crisis is a major problem in many Democrat-run cities with billions of dollars being spent to address the issue, including guaranteed incomes in some places, but this goes to show that the more you subsidize something, the more it grows.

“Our once great cities have become unlivable, unsanitary nightmares, surrendered to the homeless, the drug addicted, and the violent and dangerously deranged. We’re making many suffer for the whims of a deeply unwell few,” Trump said. “The homeless have no right to turn every park and sidewalk into a place for them to squat and do drugs. Americans should not have to step over piles of needles and waste as they walk down a street in a beautiful city — at least, a once-beautiful city. Because they’ve changed so much over the last ten years.”

“When I’m back in the White House, we will use every tool, lever, and authority to get the homeless off our streets. We want to take care of them, but they have to be off our streets,” said the former president. “There is nothing compassionate about letting these individuals live in filth and squalor rather than getting them the help that they need. We need professionals to help them.”

Trump said for “a small fraction of what we spend upon Ukraine, we could take care of every homeless veteran in America,” and vowed to work with states to “ban urban camping wherever possible.”

“We’ll then open up large parcels of inexpensive land and bring in doctors, psychiatrists, social workers, and drug rehab specialists and create tent cities where the homeless can be relocated and their problems identified,” he said.  “We’ll open up our cities again. Make them livable and make them beautiful.”

He did not talk about where the funding will come from to undergo such a massive undertaking — Los Angeles County has over 40,000 homeless alone. Trump did suggest that his strategy is “far less expensive than spending vast sums of taxpayer money to house the homeless in luxury hotels without addressing their underlying issues.”

“For those who are just temporarily down on their luck, we will work to help them quickly reintegrate into a normal life,” Trump continued. “For those who have addictions, substance abuse, and common mental health problems, we will get them into treatment. And for those who are severely mentally ill and deeply disturbed, we will bring them back to mental institutions where they belong, with the goal of reintegrating them back into society once they are well enough to manage. It’s a tough task, a very tough task.”

“This is how I will end the scourge of homelessness and make our cities clean and safe and beautiful once again,” he concluded. “We will do it. We will bring back America.”

What Trump did not seem to consider is that Democrat-run states like New York, California, Portland and Washington are not likely to be receptive to any plan he puts forth, no matter how improbable.

The left’s response was predictable:

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