HUD Secretary Ben Carson, other top Trump officials to visit California as White House ramps up home

[Eugene]

Source: Washington Post

HUD Secretary Ben Carson, other top Trump officials to visit California as White House ramps up homeless push

By Tracy Jan, Jeff Stein and Josh Dawsey
September 13, 2019 at 3:09 p.m. EDT

Senior administration officials, including Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, plan to visit Los Angeles in the coming days as part of President Trump’s push to crack down on homelessness in California, according to three people briefed on the plans.

The trip brings into sharp focus the Trump administration’s tightly held effort to spotlight and intervene in California’s growing homeless population. White House officials have not fully disclosed to local leaders the extent of their discussions, which have included probing the legality of razing tent camps and relocating large groups of homeless people.

Trump officials have expressed high interest in the surge in the homeless population in the “skid row” area of Los Angeles. Trump has sought to blame Democrats by accusing them of not doing enough to address the issue.

Carson’s visit could come as soon as next week and coincide with Trump’s trip to California, where the president will hold fundraisers. The planning remains in flux, and White House officials have been known to cancel visits at the last minute. But in a sign of how advanced discussions had become, other Trump administration officials this week secretly toured an abandoned Federal Aviation Administration facility in Hawthorne, roughly 20 miles southwest of “skid row.” Administration officials have discussed repurposing the site into a homeless shelter.

Trump has become particularly animated about the issue, complaining that years of failed policies by Democrats have fueled the crisis, and the issue is frequently covered by the conservative media. A senior White House aide said Trump had considered holding an event on homelessness during his California trip, but that is now unlikely to happen.

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[msongs]

1. trump delcares war on California. blue state ya know. gotta knock it down nt

[wasupaloopa]

2. Why are they coming to my state? Homeless are everywhere. I think trump hates us in CA.

We are proof that a Democratically controlled government can do good things for people.

Jerry Brown would have known how to deal with this. I hope he is working with Gavin Newsom on this.

I haven't heard Newsom talking about it.

[Newest Reality]

3. Carson?

Carson is useless. I am still amazed he is a brain surgeon and wonder just how that went for his patients.

Just what use has or will he be in this? I don't think ordering expensive furniture, (for himself) would be a solution. A stuffed effigy of Carson would be just as effective.

Well, let's see how far the "in flux" team pushes the law here. Does razing mean that they will not allow the homeless to pack their things up? Do they expect everyone to go to a federal interment camp voluntarily? What if most of them refuse? Won't they just scatter and move?

What a wonderful way to not solve homelessness. How much is this going to cost taxpayers and how could those funds have been used to solve the real issues in humane ways?

[struggle4progress]

4. "We decided to make it harder to get housing and scream about homelessness!"

[dixiegrrrrl]

5. There a lot in this story.

The first is that Trump and HUD are focusing on Los Angeles, for some reason, not any other city.

The 2nd is they apparently have an idea of creating concentration camps of street people, in some out-of-sight, out-of- mind locale, miles away from any social services that do help truly homeless people, as opposed to the tent camps of the actively drug using people.

Which means some Republican pals are gonna get contracts, or increased contracts, to provide the guarding services that ICE now provides to its Hispanic victims.

More people are gonna be harmed so that somebody can make money, of which of course Trump will benefit from.

Edited to add: Not to be ignored, it also means another defenseless group is gonna get disappeared while other people profit.

I don't like the grim pattern that is developing, and for the first time in my life I am beginning to understand how dictators got away with wiping out so many groups of people.

[pangaia]

8. the interesting is HO is really directing all this shit? "miller" et al,

russians/.. some sick group of repubs for sure.
trump isn;t smart enough to think of everything, or anything,.

word is here a day or so ago he does absolutely nothing all day long

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. they will sort the homeless

Work camps, export sex slaves, food. There will be profit in each category for the Gangsters Of Putin.

[ooky]

13. Grabbing people off the street and putting them into

homeless private prisons? Is this the idea? Seems like that would be unconstitutional.

[nini]

6. His cronies will make tons of money off this

That's the only reason he's even thinking about it.

[rockfordfile]

15. We must put a stop to them

[pangaia]

7. something is going on here and it has nothing particularly to do with homeless folks

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. When the full horror of the immigrant lockups was exposed

it was quite obvious there was a strong cruelty factor, and it involved a lot of the BP/ICE staff. Enough people were willing to carry out cruel acts on the Hispanic women and children.
The destruction of the family units reeked of classic genocide intent.

And I started thinking of what other groups of people would get the same the treatment, as history has shown us,..
Ok...defenseless people, those who cannot fight back, and those who are shunned/ignored by most of our society.
It's always the outliers of society...the homeless, the mentally ill, ..gay people...the "other".
For starters...to test the water, so to speak.

The mayor of a small town here in Ala. has publicly called for the killing of gays. His forced apology a couple days later was not believable by either side. Step by step they get bolder, wait for the reaction, then build on the previous step, testing to see how far they can go.

As my sig line says...........

[Cosmocat]

11. Spot on

Their momentum on this is building.

I dont see how this ends well.

[pangaia]

12. agreed... it is now so obvious... well, not just now...

for quite a while...


But I also wonder if there isn;t allso somewthing else that has to do seicifically wirh CA?

[dixiegrrrrl]

16. I suspect because Cal/Newsom has been giving the finger to the donald

plus doing something the Republicans will like, and remember, come election.

For trump, $$$ has to be involved, for the RNC, votes do.

[dalton99a]

14. Trump will declare a national emergency for California's homeless

and federalize their care and feeding in a very beautiful federal facility run by a "great guy and a very, very good friend of mine"

"Ben, give him the contract!"

[dixiegrrrrl]

17. sounds a lot like

that big farm somewhere that parents tell you that your pets were sent to.