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Advocates Warn of ‘Forced Labor’ Camp for Homeless People in Utah Designed to Enforce Trump Order

https://www.commondreams.org/news/utah-homeless-internment-camp

In an effort to fulfill President Donald Trump’s executive order on homelessness, Utah is building a massive facility that housing advocates warn will function as an “internment camp” where the unhoused will be subject to forced labor.

Last month, Utah’s homeless services agencies came to an agreement for the state to acquire a nearly 16-acre parcel of rural land in the Northpoint area of northwest Salt Lake City to construct the first-of-its-kind facility, which is slated to have 1,300 beds.

The genesis of the project began in July, following Trump’s “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets” executive order, which threatened to withhold funding from states and cities unless they criminalized homeless people camping on streets and ordered the attorney general to expand the use of involuntary civil commitment for adults experiencing homelessness.

Despite a large body of evidence showing their effectiveness at curbing crime while keeping people off the street, the order also required the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to end its support of “Housing First” policies that provide unhoused people with homes without the requirement of behavioral health treatment or sobriety.

Less than a week after Trump’s homelessness order, Utah’s Republican Gov. Spencer Cox, as well as the state Senate president and House speaker—both Republicans—sent a letter to the state’s Homeless Services Board, which was created last year following a legislative push by the Cicero Insitute—a far-right think tank that has proposed aggressive measures to criminalize homelessness and which has had major influence over Trump’s crackdown on the homeless during his second term.
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>>1453135
In the letter, the leaders agreed with the Trump administration that they “do not support ‘Housing First’ policies that lack accountability.” They directed the Board to “accelerate progress on a transformative, services-based homeless campus that prioritizes recovery, treatment, and long-term outcomes, not just emergency shelter.”

As far back as 2023, Trump has proposed using “large parcels of inexpensive land” to set up “tent cities” or camps for homeless people, coupled with a pledge to use “every tool, lever, and authority” to clear encampments from city streets. On the podcast Invisible People, which focuses on homelessness in America, Eric Tars of the National Homelessness Law Center said Utah’s new facility could be a “pilot program” for that effort around the country.

“Their end goal is not just jail,” Tars said. “They want to put up more of these Alligator Alcatraz sprung structure type facilities,” referring to the ramshackle immigration detention facility constructed in a remote part of Florida’s Everglades earlier this year, where detainees have been cut off from access to their lawyers and are widely reported to suffer from inhumane treatment.

He noted that, under a proposal drafted by the chair of Utah’s Homeless Services Board, Randy Shumway, more than 300 of the beds in the facility are slated for involuntary commitment. Other homeless people will be sent there for substance abuse treatment “as an alternative to jail” and will “receive care in a supervised environment where entry and exit are not voluntary.” Shumway referred to the facility as an “accountability center.”
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>>1453136
What is wrong with this? Put them to work and get them off the street. The homeless are all mentally ill and can't take care of themselves. It's okay when California literally gives them state funded fund, not building housing for them is wrong to democraps
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How you gonna get bums to work besides forcing them? We will just keep their paycheck to cover our expenses.
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>>1453137
>>1453142
>Uh who cares about the slave labor camps? They need to work somehow
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>>1453154
California pays people to be homeless
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>>1453154
>Commies, ignorant of history, complain about forced labor.
lol. Do they get paid?
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>>1453156
why don't any of your posts make sense
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>housing is a human right!
>NO NOT LIKE THAT!
Make up your minds
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>>1453158
do you know why "house" and "involuntary detention center" aren't synonymous, shill?
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>>1453156
Do they get to leave? Do they get a choice of whether or not they work?

Slaves got paid too; didn't mean they weren't slaves.
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>>1453159
How do you expect people to pay back the value of free housing?
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>>1453159
>involuntary
Okay, live on the street, I don't give a shit
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>>1453162
you don't give a shit about anything you post, you're a shill. and if you tried to live here with your salary you'd be on the street
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>>1453161
>pay back the value of free housing
>pay back the value
>free
>pay back
>FREE
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>>1453163
It's a dorm, retard. Read the article.
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>>1453165
why would anyone trust this administration full of malicious lying faggots
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>>1453162
>Okay, live on the street, I don't give a shit
They can't; Trump is trying to make it illegal. So if your unfortunate enough to wind up homeless, your options are
>Live on the street and get arrested
>Go into one of these camps and be forced to work
Either way the end result of being homeless is involuntary confinement.
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Don't get it twisted. Unless you are in the top 20% of earners in the country, they want YOU in the camps too.
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>>1453135
It would be cheaper to just put them up in regular homes. The cruelty is the point.
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>>1453167
Sounds like Trump is finally fixing the problem
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>>1453178
>Fixing the problem of homelessness by effectively making being poor illegal
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>>1453172
Reminder that Democrats have been trying to build FEMA camps for decades
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>>1453187
The homeless are not poor, they are mentally ill and rehabilitation is not possible.
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>>1453190
you're poor though, aren't you shill. have a penny
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If anyone is interested in how this was done correctly, read up on FDR's "CCC" camps in the early '30s.

Anyone who wanted work (which was everyone), got housing, work, a living wage, free health care and education, and rebuilt this country after the great Crash.

That is how you do this right.
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>>1453192
>Anyone who wanted work (which was everyone), got housing, work, a living wage, free health care and education, and rebuilt this country after the great Crash.
Wow, that sounds... consensual! And not involuntary!
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>>1453188
>muh demonrats
the republicans hate you too, moron.
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>>1453190
>On hard times? You are clearly too mentally ill to function. We have to put you down. Only an insane man would lose his house and not be able to keep a job
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>>1453191
Sorry, Ranjeet. I have a job and I pay more in taxes than your entire village makes shilling Democrat propaganda
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>>1453173
Indeed, your opponents are all evil and work with the worst intentions. It's not a difference of opinion it's that they're terrible people. That's why you must kill them, terrorist.
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>>1453199
>>1453200
if that were the case you wouldn't be begging for attention, shill anon. have another penny
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As much as any of you can talk about it, when the time comes you will work in a camp and thank Trump daily. Like singing praises to God.
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>>1453195
It didn't cost much and it employed tens of thousands and they built needed things all over the country. He had other WPA projects that got anyone who could work full-time paid employment and benefits.

FDR was a greatest president and no one else is even close. Then Reagan started tearing it down and here we are, with a president who only protects the very wealthy and shits on everyone else ... and the poor love him.
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>>1453135
Remember when Alex Jones used to scare his listeners by saying Obama was going to build these camps?
Pepperidge Farms remembers.
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>>1453135
Jesus fucking christ.
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The Tree of Liberty needs watered with the blood of patriots. Thanks for volunteering, Maga.
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>>1453431
I never listened to him.
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>>1453324
>with a president who only protects the very wealthy and shits on everyone else
What?
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>>1453324
Reagan also closed the asylums and gave us the crazies we have today. Thanks Bobbie. Thanks Ronnie. Thanks Donnie.
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>>1453622
untruth shitty post.
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>>1453621
Trump, anon.
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Just another day here in paradise.
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>>1453625
Reagan didn't close the asylums?
Sounds like you coping hard, anon.
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>>1453661
Nah, civil rights lawsuits did that.
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>>1453662
Not true. On a secondary note though, blame always goes to the leader. That is part of the burden of being leader, only little bitches playing leader do the blame game instead of solving problems. America is done it just doesn't understand yet. The United Snakes of Embarrassment. Thanks Trump.
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Good.
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>>1453135
Don't worry. The camps aren't for adults, they're for the child camps where millionaires can get fresh pizza and bowls of enclaires and mixed juice smoothies, though there are a variety of flavors with people there is only one served... go figure.



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