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In #Utah, #Trump’s Vision for #Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

The proposed site where Utah plans to place as many as 1,300 homeless people outside of Salt Lake City.

State officials promise large-scale #involuntary #addiction & #MentalHealth treatment at Salt Lake City’s edge. Critics see “a prison, or a warehouse.”

#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/us/politics/utah-trump-homeless-campus.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU8.-Nd0.pGnMZllHXOAG&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

[In the campaign video, #Trump accused] #homeless people of turning great cities into “unsanitary nightmares,” he pledged “to use every tool, lever & authority to get the homeless off our streets.” He said the admin would “open up large parcels of inexpensive land” where “dangerously deranged” people “can be relocated & their problems identified.”

#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ISTu6JRtJTI

#Utah already has a severe shortage of #psychiatric beds, she noted. The #legislature is unlikely to fund hundreds of new beds, & even if it did, there is no work force to staff them.

Without enormous new spending, she said, the center could function less as a treatment facility than “a prison or a warehouse.”

The emerging portrait of the center, scheduled to open in 2027, brings to life a vow that #Trump made 2 years ago in an extraordinary campaign video.

#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps

Critics of the new plan say that confining people to a site on the city’s outskirts threatens #CivilLiberties & warn that the promised services may not materialize. The efforts coincide with deep cuts to #Medicaid, which could thwart the project’s financing.

“I’m super anxious about it,” said Jen Plumb, a physician & Democratic state senator who calls the promise of high-quality #medical care “pie in the sky.”

#Trump #law #unhoused #Utah #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #plutocracy #USpol

While the #Utah effort began before Trump’s return to office, it mirrors his pledge to move the #homeless from urban cores to “tent cities” with *services*. And it accelerated after #Trump issued an EO in July, calling for strict camping bans & expanded power to #involuntarily treat homeless people.

#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

“An accountability center is #involuntary, OK — you’re not coming in & out,” Randy Shumway, chairman of the state #Homeless Services Board, said in an interview. #Utah will end a harmful “culture of permissiveness,” he said, & guide homeless people “towards human thriving.”
[sure, Jan.]

#Trump #law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

With outdoor sleeping banned, removal to the edge of town may become the only way some #homeless Utahns can avoid #jail. Planners say the facility will also hold hundreds of mentally ill homeless people under #CourtOrdered civil commitment & the effort will include an “accountability center” for those with addictions.

#Trump #law #unhoused #Utah #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

They also vow *stern* measures to move #homeless people to the remote site & #force many of them to undergo treatment, reflecting a nationwide push by some #conservatives for a new approach to #homelessness, one embraced & promoted by #Trump.

#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol

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In #Utah, #Trump’s Vision for #Homelessness Begins to Take Shape

The proposed site where Utah plans to place as many as 1,300 homeless people outside of Salt Lake City.

State officials promise large-scale #involuntary #addiction & #MentalHealth treatment at Salt Lake City’s edge. Critics see “a prison, or a warehouse.”

#law #unhoused #ConcentrationCamps #SocialCleansing #Aporophobia #EconomicDiscrimination #plutocracy #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/29/us/politics/utah-trump-homeless-campus.html?unlocked_article_code=1.xU8.-Nd0.pGnMZllHXOAG&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Florida’s emergency manager has a new job: Detaining immigrants
Kevin Guthrie operates "Alligator Alcatraz." Some emergency managers worry that could scare Hispanic residents away from seeking help in a hurricane or other disaster.

https://archive.ph/inSTw

#disasters #EmergencyManagement #ICE #Fascism #ConcentrationCamps

At least 15 people have died in ICE custody since President Trump took office. Hundreds are still missing. Mostly plucked from the streets, their homes, workplaces, immigration courts, by masked armed thugs, often without warrants. Overwhelming majority of those arrested had committed no felonies. Many were U.S. citizens with the legal right to be here.

This is fascism. And Trump is ensuring that his buddies in the private prison system are profiting handsomely from it.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/23/nx-s1-5549411/ossoff-warnock-noem-immigration-detention-death

#trump #ice #immigration #prison #concentrationcamps

At least 15 people have died in ICE custody since President Trump took office. Hundreds are still missing. Mostly plucked from the streets, their homes, workplaces, immigration courts, by masked armed thugs, often without warrants. Overwhelming majority of those arrested had committed no felonies. Many were U.S. citizens with the legal right to be here.

This is fascism. And Trump is ensuring that his buddies in the private prison system are profiting handsomely from it.

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/23/nx-s1-5549411/ossoff-warnock-noem-immigration-detention-death

#trump #ice #immigration #prison #concentrationcamps

On the 23ed of August, protesters arrived at the former Baker Correctional Institution. This former prison was closed for human rights violations, now DeSantis wants to reopen it as a concentration camp for ICE.

The protest was small but took place as drenching rain faded to sprinking rain, at a site roughly 2/3'eds of the way from Jacksonville, FL to lke City, FL on US 90. As the protest ended there was an ugly incident of unknown intent. As protesters were loading up their cars, a truck presumably associated with the prison project drove into the driveway to the field the cars were in and blocked it. The truck was between the two police cruisers on either side of the driveway and conversation between them could be heard. As soon as someone got a camera up aimed at this, they wrapped up their conversation and in minutes the truck was gone and the exit route was open. Unknown if that was random chance with that truck having business there anyway, a deliberate "fake kettle" psy-op, or something else.

On the 23ed of August, protesters arrived at the former Baker Correctional Institution. This former prison was closed for human rights violations, now DeSantis wants to reopen it as a concentration camp for ICE.

The protest was small but took place as drenching rain faded to sprinking rain, at a site roughly 2/3'eds of the way from Jacksonville, FL to lke City, FL on US 90. As the protest ended there was an ugly incident of unknown intent. As protesters were loading up their cars, a truck presumably associated with the prison project drove into the driveway to the field the cars were in and blocked it. The truck was between the two police cruisers on either side of the driveway and conversation between them could be heard. As soon as someone got a camera up aimed at this, they wrapped up their conversation and in minutes the truck was gone and the exit route was open. Unknown if that was random chance with that truck having business there anyway, a deliberate "fake kettle" psy-op, or something else.

Then the king will say to those on his right, "come, you who are blessed by my father; take your inheritance, the kingdom prepared for you since the creation of the world."

For I was an immigrant and you put a mask on your face, threatened me with a gun, smashed my car window, disappeared me to a concentration camp in a swamp, and fed me from dishes on the floor.

#Trump#Republicans#Jesus #evangelicals#Christians #bible #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps#MaskedThugs
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They've gone from sending:
- undocumented "illegal" immigrants
- documented "legal" immigrants

to concentration camps,

and have now moved onto rounding up and sending:
- the homeless
- individuals with mental illnesses

to concentration camps.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

#EO#executiveOrder #homelessness #homeless#mentalHealth#ICE#concentrationCamps

They've gone from sending:
- undocumented "illegal" immigrants
- documented "legal" immigrants

to concentration camps,

and have now moved onto rounding up and sending:
- the homeless
- individuals with mental illnesses

to concentration camps.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/ending-crime-and-disorder-on-americas-streets/

#EO#executiveOrder #homelessness #homeless#mentalHealth#ICE#concentrationCamps

"As someone who has written about and celebrated Alexei Navalny, I don’t use the word 'gulag' lightly. But unlike with Soviet-era or even Putin-era Russia, you thought that couldn’t happen here, right? Guess again. It already has. Or at least a Nerf version of it. No, we’re not executing prisoners just yet."

~ Matt Labash

#Trump#StephenMiller#ICE #immigrants#ConcentrationCamps #torture #gulags
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https://mattlabash.substack.com/p/tortured-logic