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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - President Donald Trump has signed a caller enforcement bid directing cities and states to instrumentality a tougher stance connected homelessness- making it easier to region radical from nationalist spaces and encampments, adjacent against their will.
The order, signed connected July 24, calls for enactment connected vagrancy, disorderly behaviour and abrupt convulsive thoroughfare confrontations.
It directs the U.S. Attorney General to rotation backmost ineligible precedents that presently bounds however authorities and section governments tin enforce removals oregon mandate attraction for unhoused individuals.
While the extremity of reducing transgression and restoring nationalist bid is clear, critics reason the bid lacks the resources needed to transportation it retired effectively- and whitethorn yet bash much harm than good.
“He’s calling for an extremity to homelessness,” said Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass, who acknowledged that tackling thoroughfare homelessness is simply a shared precedence for galore cities. “One of the problems I person with the enforcement bid is it’s calling for pushing radical into treatment, but wherever are the dollars?”
In Fresno, section stateless advocator Desiree Martinez echoed those concerns. She said the enforcement bid could intensify already strained conditions successful cities that are under-resourced erstwhile it comes to semipermanent treatment, housing, oregon betterment programs.
“It conscionable doesn’t work,” Martinez said. “It’s fast. It looks bully for data, but it’s not the extremity solution.”
Martinez pointed to Fresno’s existing ordinance, which prohibits sitting oregon lasting connected nationalist sidewalks. She says the ordinance has led to implicit 300 arrests successful the past year—but without semipermanent support, astir radical instrumentality to the streets wrong days.
“We inactive person radical going backmost to the streets without a spot to live… determination is not capable determination for them,” she said. “My question is, tin we accidental we arrested 330 people—how galore really went into a shelter? If they did, 90 days is up. They went backmost to the streets.”
Martinez says the enforcement bid risks criminalizing poorness and could invitation greater constabulary involvement, resulting successful unintended consequences.
“It’s going to let the constabulary to maltreatment america more. There’s going to beryllium much force,” she said. “And with much constabulary maltreatment comes much lawsuits connected the city.”
YourCentralValley.com reached retired to Fresno Mayor Jerry Dyer’s bureau for comment, and his bureau said they don’t yet cognize however the enforcement bid volition impact Fresno directly.
