Where will the homeless people be taken? What agents move them? How will they be housed & Fed?<\/p>\n
Sue M.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not entirely clear where these people will be taken or what agents will be tasked with moving them.<\/p>\n
Trump wrote on his social media site before Monday\u2019s news conference announcing the takeover that \u201cthe homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital.\u201d<\/p>\n
Asked during a media briefing at the White House on Tuesday where homeless people would be relocated, press secretary Karoline Leavitt said local police and federal agencies would \u201cenforce the laws that are already on the books,\u201d which, she said, \u201chave been completely ignored.\u201d<\/p>\n
Citing a city regulation that she said gives local police \u201cthe authority to take action when it comes to homeless encampments,\u201d Leavitt said homeless people \u201cwill be given the option to leave their encampment, to be taken to a homeless shelter, to be offered addiction or mental health services.\u201d Those who refuse \u201cwill be susceptible to fines or to jail time.\u201d<\/p>\n
District officials said Tuesday they were making additional shelter space available after Trump said federal agents would remove homeless people in the city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Where will the homeless people be taken? What agents move them? How will they be housed & Fed?…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80416,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[23,3505,12,3138,3,21,26939,19,22,20,25,24],"class_list":["post-80415","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","tag-america","tag-district-of-columbia","tag-donald-trump","tag-government-and-politics","tag-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-congress","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80415","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80415"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80415\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80415"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80415"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80415"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}