Trump signs executive order forcing homeless
off America’s streets
New York Post,
by
Dianna Nerozzi
&
Steven Nelson
Original Article
Posted By: JoElla Bee,
7/24/2025 5:56:03 PM
WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an executive order Thursday calling on states and cities to end “endemic vagrancy” — and rehouse homeless people including drug addicts and those suffering from mental problems in “treatment centers.” The order redirects federal funding to prioritize “shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment through the appropriate use of civil commitment.” On average, more than 274,000 people were sleeping on the streets each night last year under then-President Joe Biden, the order says.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
sunshinehorses 7/24/2025 6:19:06 PM (No. 1982083)
Hubby and I were talking about this. There used to be county homes, long term mental health facilities, etc. but not any more. We have a grown son that should be in one, but we can't even get him forced into short term rehab. More often than not, he is homeless. Yes he is a drug addict and alcoholic plus a lot of mental health issues, but as an adult, it is impossible to get him help.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
mifla 7/24/2025 6:50:20 PM (No. 1982087)
Regardless of intentions, this will never pass constitutional muster.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
mc squared 7/24/2025 7:13:58 PM (No. 1982099)
Sounds good but laws won't change reality. Drugs, alcohol and illness will always be with us.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
padiva 7/24/2025 9:11:08 PM (No. 1982123)
10th Amendment.
It's up to the states to decide if they want people living on the streets.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
4goodnessake 7/25/2025 6:00:39 AM (No. 1982176)
For this alone he should have a place on Mount Rushmore
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
Jesuslover54 7/25/2025 6:02:04 AM (No. 1982177)
Sadly. Reagan owns this mess.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
billa57 7/25/2025 6:16:04 AM (No. 1982181)
Much needed, dems have been systematically getting rid of mental health institutions and putting the mentally ill out on the street with a SS check, a 'remember who to vote for!', and slap on the back. They don't seem to care that much about The mentally ill or the safety of the American people.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/25/2025 6:16:41 AM (No. 1982182)
Just use the newly vacated "migrant" shelters to take care of our own homeless. Those people are living more luxuriously that many working Americans. Ironically, the cities who have the most homeless are also the ones who claimed the "sanctuary city" status. Most of our social problems are created by democrats.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 7/25/2025 6:36:39 AM (No. 1982187)
#6, you sure about that? It is my understanding that Bill Clinton started that process and I could be misinformed on that subject. Yet, there is a situation that screams at me. John Hinckley attempted to assassinate Ronald Reagan and was placed in a mental health facility and not prison. I guess all I can say is something doesn't match up with the assertion that Ronald Reagan owns this mess. . .
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Rather Read 7/25/2025 6:53:19 AM (No. 1982194)
We had a guy who lived in a tent by the side of the road surrounded with bags. He had a family who were more than willing to help him but he wouldn't budge. The county passed a law against what he was doing and I haven't seen him since. I hope he got help but I would be willing to bet he would refuse it.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 7/25/2025 6:55:26 AM (No. 1982197)
There’s plenty of room for them on the North Slope of Alaska.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
Strike3 7/25/2025 7:28:40 AM (No. 1982208)
We have always had the homeless, the only thing that has changed is the higher numbers and having more mentally ill people in the population. After the Depression, we had hobos who hitched rides on trains and slept where they could until ordered to move on. In the 1960s, the Hippie movement crowd thought it was cool to not have a job, sleep where they could and eat out of dumpsters. Those in the famous Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco were rail-thin and looked like the walking dead. New York has had their famous Skid Row since at least the sixties. Today, supplying them with food, shelter and clean needles creates many more homeless because we make it too easy for them.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Catherine 7/25/2025 7:51:30 AM (No. 1982221)
# 1 - my ex had mental issues. When we were first married, back in the '60's, we could get him hospitalized. He'd be cared for, put back on meds and would be okay for a long time. Then someone suddenly gave the mentally ill all these rights, did not have to be hospitalized if they didn't want it and no one could force their meds on them. That was the beginning of the mess we have today.
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They are living in the wooded areas in my part of Baton Rouge, so not sure if the "homeless on the streets" will apply. But I feel very vulnerable with drug addicts right outside my car window at an intersection. A law was passed that they cannot be out in the street begging and slowing traffic. But unless it is regularly enforced it makes no difference. It wouldn't take much to get them to relocate to a city who does not enforce.
The same applies to this executive order. It has to be enforced to make a difference.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
mossley 7/25/2025 8:31:16 AM (No. 1982232)
#6, blaming Reagan is a classic liberal lie. The ACLU sued to shut down the mental institutions, arguing that people incapable of making decisions should be allowed to make their own decisions. A liberal judge sided with the ACLU. Just because it happened during Reagan's term doesn't mean he had anything to do with it.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
kdog 7/25/2025 9:01:32 AM (No. 1982245)
There are going to be a lot of voices declaring this can never be solved, but the first step in any event is to stop TOLERATING the problem. Not only are we tolerating the problem, but we are throwing BILLIONS of dollars into it, most of which is being skimmed off the top to pay for bloated NGOs with little if any money actually going toward actually solving the problem. Why kill your cash cow?
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
Zigrid 7/25/2025 9:20:28 AM (No. 1982255)
I'm so sorry...for your troubles...poster #1...yes...this plan is a good one...back to mental facilities for care off the streets...WE had an excellent facility called Dunning...and it served our community well...then suddenly some democrats wanted the prime land site...and Springfield closed it and sold it to private familiar faces...looks like President Trump is going down a good path for the homeless and addicts...he's amazing....off to Scotland to play some golf between trade deals.....
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
ARKfamily 7/25/2025 9:23:26 AM (No. 1982257)
#13, I have a different situation but I was a young person so I may not know the whole story. My mom was placed on one of those facilities and after two weeks, she was allowed to return home. My Mom or Dad are no longer with me but I can surmise she was put there because she had seizures and it would have been in the 60's.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
Catherine 7/25/2025 9:47:08 AM (No. 1982272)
# 18, so sorry about your mom. Long ago many actual physical maladies were thought to be mental illnesses. My grandmother had a sister who would be called "slow" or "special needs" today. My grandmother was caring for her but someone reported this (I don't know why) and her sister was taken away and put in a mental institution, where she was raped. That would not happen today.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
Namma 7/25/2025 9:48:08 AM (No. 1982274)
During clintons presidency, he along with the ACLU closed hospitals for the people who needed help with mental problems. The ACLU claimed their civil rights were being denied by being held in a facility. Even tho the person was getting help for their disability. Many patients were released, and had no place to go but the streets. But they had the right to be there, said the ACLU and clinton.
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
NotaBene 7/25/2025 10:57:26 AM (No. 1982305)
That homeless are all over in the richest country on earth is on US. We have to start somewhere and at least Republican cities will be cleaned out. Vagrancy ordinances are a good start.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Gallo3 7/25/2025 11:19:46 AM (No. 1982317)
A Simple Plan:
Build a campground surrounded with cyclone fence in an industrial area on the edge of town. Install Porta Potties, and let the campers stay there for free. Supply them with jugs of drinking water, and dry rice and beans. Any that leave, arrest them for vagrancy. Construct large industrial treadmills with magnetos to generate municipal electricity; sentence the vagrants to walking the treadmill for sixty or ninety days, twelve hours per day. Then upon completion of the treadmill sentence, give them a one-way ticket to Burlington Vermont and let Bernie Sanders and his followers take care of them.
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
ADNova 7/25/2025 11:44:36 AM (No. 1982334)
It may not be a perfect plan but at least it's a plan based on dignity and humanity. I don't think jailing these people are the answer so it'll really be determined on whether or not people want the help. Good on someone for trying. The current situation clearly isn't working.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
joew9 7/25/2025 11:53:27 AM (No. 1982335)
Homeless is a misnomer created by dems in opposition to Ronald Reagan. Dems had been emptying mental institutions since 1950s and the patients ended up on the street. When Reagan became president Dems claimed his economic policy had put these people on the street.
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
Geoman 7/25/2025 11:53:48 AM (No. 1982336)
Executive Orders have force of law only within the Executive Branch.
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
weejun 7/25/2025 1:17:04 PM (No. 1982375)
Ah, the brilliance of Trump! Once again, he trolls the dems/media on an 80/20 issue, and because their TDS is so acute, they will immediately take the bait and jump to defend the homeless. The guy is a master troller!
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
3XALADY 7/25/2025 1:54:34 PM (No. 1982390)
How many of them will move to shelter if they can't take their drugs with them? Will shelters continue to pass out free needles and Narcan if they do take their drugs with them. Will it be a sheltered Kensington Street? If it was only mental illness with the homeless, it might not be so huge a problem.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
PrayerWarrior 7/25/2025 2:55:35 PM (No. 1982418)
We can blame the abundance of illegal drugs starting in the 1960s for the increased homelessness of our youth. Our son started taking pot in high school where a dealer was giving free samples. And he got hooked which led to other illegal drugs like Meth, fentanyl. He almost died a couple of times from fentanyl, but we believe it was our constant prayers that saved him. Today he is in a program and is clean and sober for the past 2 years here in Idaho. #1 you might check into David Wilkerson's program for your son.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
LC Chihuahua 7/25/2025 6:10:36 PM (No. 1982521)
How much will this cost? What are the odds this gets blocked by the judiciary. I remember hearing about debtor prison. Don't recall America ever having debtor prison. Guess we can call this government run homeless camps. How is this different from NYC (and other states and cities) housing people in hotels and other places? Didn't Biden push for this? Maybe the judiciary won't block it after all.
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Reply 30 - Posted by:
Hermit_Crab 7/25/2025 6:28:39 PM (No. 1982530)
And even if by some miracle this actually works out well, and 'the homeless' are put into controlled but livable facilities, How long before some 0bama or Biden Judge (or even a Bush or Clinton judge) declares that the residents be given 'transitioning' surgeries and hormones, or supplied the 'recreational' drugs of their choice, at taxpayer expense. And an 'emotional support pony'....???
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Reply 31 - Posted by:
WWIIDaughter 7/25/2025 7:53:38 PM (No. 1982565)
Agree #7 and # 15: A friend worked at Austin State Hospital in 1980. it had become illegal per OK First District Court to force an in-pt. to take meds. and one of the patients and his parents insisted that he not be forced to take meds. He had schizophrenia and shortly thereafter her tore out his own eyeballs with his fingers.
Dreadful.
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So thankful to hear this for their sakes, as well as ours. The mentally ill never should have been dumped onto the streets.