Source: Rutherford Institute
by John & Nisha Whitehead
“The government’s war on homelessness — much like its war on terrorism, its war on drugs, its war on illegal immigration, and its war on COVID-19 — is yet another Trojan Horse. … An Orwellian exercise in doublespeak, Trump’s executive order suggests that jailing the homeless, rather than providing them with affordable housing, is the ‘compassionate’ solution to homelessness. … Trump wants to see more use of civil commitments (forced detentions) for anyone who is perceived as posing a risk ‘to themselves or the public or are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves in appropriate facilities for appropriate periods of time.’ Translation: the government wants to use homelessness as a pretext for indefinitely locking up anyone who might pose a threat to its chokehold on police state power.” (07/31/25)