Trump requires homeless people ‘immediately’ to get out of Washington

US President Donald Trump said homeless people should “move” from Washington when he swore to deal with crime in the city, but the mayor returned against the White House, likening the US capital with Baghdad in Iraq.

The Republican president also gave way to a press conference on Monday for his plan to make the city “more fascinated and more beautiful than he used to be.”

Mayor Muriel Bowser, Democrat, said, “We are not experiencing crimes.”

Trump signed an order last month, facilitating the arrest of stray people, and he ordered federal law enforcement agencies on Washington streets last week.

“The homeless must be exported immediately,” Trump wrote on his social media site Truth Social on Sunday. “We will give you places to stay, but far from the capital. Criminals, you don’t have to move. We’ll put you in prison where you belong.”

Along with pictures of tents and garbage, he added, “There will be no” G -Nice Guy “. We want our capital.

The specifics of the President’s plan are not yet clear, but in a speech in 2022 he suggested moving homeless to “high quality” tents on cheap lands outside the cities, while providing access to baths and medical professionals.

On Friday, Trump ordered federal agents – including US police, drug administration, FBI and US Marshals – Washington to limit what he called “completely out of control” crime levels.

A White House employee told the NPR that up to 450 federal officers were located on Saturday night.

The administration is also considering deploying members of the National Guard, although Trump has not yet made a final decision, according to Reuters and ABC News reports.

Trump’s moves come after a 19-year-old former ministry of the Government Efficiency Ministry (DOG) has been attacked in an alleged attempt to steal in Washington.

Trump got out of this social media incident, posting a photo of the bloody victim.

Mayor Bowser told MSNBC on Sunday: “It is true that in 2023 we had a terrible jump in crime, but this is not 2023.

“We spent the last two years by driving through the violence in this city, reaching it to a 30-year minimum.”

She criticizes the White House’s deputy headquarters Stephen Miller for calling the US capital “more alarly than Baghdad.”

“Any comparison with a war -torn side is hyperbolic and false,” Bouser said.

Washington murder ratio remains relatively high per capita compared to other cities in the United States, with a total of 98 such killings has been reported so far this year. The killings are a trend higher in the US capital from a decade ago.

But federal data from January He suggests that last year Washington registered its largest general crime data – after intersections, attack and robbery were included – after 30 years.

Trump promised a White House press conference on Monday to outline his plans to stop crime with violence in the US capital.

In another post on Sunday, he said that the event at 10:00 EDT (2:00 pm) will deal with the end of “crime, murder and death” in the city, as well as its “physical renewal”.

He described Bouses as “a good man who tried”, adding that despite the mayor’s efforts, crime continues to be “worse” and the city becomes “frozen and less attractive”.

The public partnership, an organization that works to reduce homelessness in Washington, told Reuters that the city of 700,000 residents had about 3 782 people homeless through any evening.

Most were in public housing or emergency shelters, but about 800 are considered “on the street”.

As an area, not as a country, Washington DC is controlled by the federal government, which has the power to cancel some local laws.

The president controls the federal lands and buildings in the city, although he will need Congress to take over the federal control of the area.

In recent days, he has threatened to take over the City Police Department in Washington, which Bouser claims is not possible.

“There are many specific things in our law that would allow the president to have more control over our police department,” Bouser said. “None of these conditions exists in our city right now.”

Trump is critical of various urban administrations governed by Democrats during his two presidential terms.

In recent months, he has more encountered the leadership of Los Angeles after ordering thousands of members of the National Guard to cope with unrest because of the raids of undocumented migrants.

This deployment was the subject of a legal battle that will reach a federal court in California on Monday.

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