Empty the streets of homeless people and drug addicts. It is the new proposal donald trump ahead of the 2024 presidential election. “Our once-great cities have become uninhabitable and unhealthy nightmaressurrendered to the homeless, drug addicts, the violent and dangerously deranged,” said the former US president, who will compete in the Republican primaries.

Trump assures that the homeless do not have the right to turn “every park and sidewalk into a place for them to occupy and consume drugs” and has also asserted that “Americans should not have to walk over piles of syringes and garbage as they walk down a street in a beautiful city. In this sense, he maintains that first must be “the rights and safety of working citizens and law-abiding people who make our society work.

Thus, he has announced that “when he returns to the White House” he will use “every tool” to get the homeless off the streets. In this regard, he has argued that these people must be cared for, but that they have to be off the streets. “There is nothing compassionate in letting these people live in dirt and misery instead of getting the help they need,” he said, after pointing out that “professionals to help them” are necessary.

According to Trump, with all the money that will be saved by ending irregular migration there will be enough funds to address this crisis. The strategy he proposes involves working with the different states to ban urban camping “whenever possible”. according to your plan violators will be arrestedalthough they will be provided with tools to be rehabilitated in society.

Trump’s proposal includes the opening of large spaces for this group that would have the support of doctors, psychiatrists, social workers and specialists in drug rehabilitation. Those with mental illness, he has indicated, will be placed in institutions for reintegration into society.

Trump is facing in the primaries, for the moment, 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.