Miami, Apr 18 (EFE).- Former US President Donald Trump (2017-2021), who will compete in Republican primaries for the 2024 elections, released a statement on Tuesday announcing that if he wins the next elections he will withdraw from the streets the homeless and drug addicts who populate the country’s cities.
“Our once-great cities have become uninhabitable and unsanitary nightmares, surrendered to the homeless, the drug addicted, the violent, and the dangerously deranged,” he said in his campaign office statement.
Trump assures that the homeless have no right to turn “every park and sidewalk into a place for them to occupy and use drugs”, in addition to pointing out that “Americans should not have to walk over piles of syringes and garbage while walking down a street in a beautiful city”, or that it was.
He said in that sense that the first consideration should be “the rights and safety of the hard-working and law-abiding citizens who make our society work.”
For this reason, he announced that if he becomes the Republican candidate and then president “when he returns to the White House” he will use “all the tools” to get the homeless off the streets.
He argued that these people must be cared for, but that they have to be off the streets.
“There is nothing compassionate about letting these people live in filth and misery instead of getting the help they need,” he said, after noting that “professionals to help them” are needed.
He indicated that with all the money that will be saved by ending irregular migration there will be enough funds to address this crisis that the country is suffering.
Trump’s proposed strategy involves working with individual states to ban urban camping “whenever possible.”
Violators of these prohibitions will be arrested, he said, although on the other hand they will be provided with tools to be rehabilitated in society.
The proposed plan includes the opening of large spaces for this group that will have the support of doctors, psychiatrists, social workers and drug rehabilitation specialists.
Trump indicated that those who have mental illnesses will be taken to institutions with the aim of reintegrating them into society.
Trump will face in the Republican primaries, for the moment, against the former governor of South Carolina Nikki Haley, the businessman Vivek Ramaswamy and the two-time governor of Arkansas Asa Hutchinson, who could be joined by the governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis.
