Trump Orders Homeless Eviction in DC Crime Crackdown
Trump wrote a statement directing the homeless people to immediately move out of Washington DC promising to provide places for them to satay out of the city.
Trump's moves come after a 19-year-old former employee of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) was assaulted in an alleged attempted carjacking in Washington DC. Photo/ Courtesy
By Gidion Ngeno
US President Donald Trump has ordered the evacuation of homeless people out of Washington DC as he vowed to tackle crime in the city,a move that he refer as making the city safer.
Trump signed an order last month making it easier to arrest homeless people, and he last week ordered federal law enforcement into the streets of Washington DC.
In a social media post on Sunday, Trump wrote a statement directing the homeless people to immediately move out of Washington DC promising to provide places for them to satay out of the city.
“The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY,”
On Friday, Trump ordered federal agents – including from US Park Police, the Drug Enforcement Administration, the FBI and the US Marshals Service – into Washington DC to curb what he called “totally out of control” levels of crime.
A White House official told NPR that up to 450 federal officers were deployed on Saturday night.
Trump’s moves come after a 19-year-old former employee of the Department of Government Efficiency (Doge) was assaulted in an alleged attempted carjacking in Washington DC.
In another post on Sunday, he said the event would address ending “crime, murder and death” in the city, as well as its “physical renovation”.
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