Trump’s Plan to Solve Homeless Crisis: Force People Into Psychiatric Hospitals

City and state officials will now have more power to forcibly hospitalize homeless people experiencing mental illness or addiction, thanks to a new executive order.

The order, which President Trump signed Thursday afternoon, advises local and state officials to forcibly commit individuals to long-term treatment facilities if they “pose risks to themselves or the public or are living on the streets and cannot care for themselves.” The president wrote that doing so will “restore public order.”

“Endemic vagrancy, disorderly behavior, sudden confrontations, and violent attacks have made our cities unsafe,” the order reads in part.

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