Local mental health advocates say a new executive order allowing homeless people to be forcibly removed from streets and hospitalized against their will is a “dangerous regression” that would violate people’s rights and threaten the work of organizations that support mentally ill and homeless individuals.
On July 24, President Donald Trump signed an executive order titled “Ending Crime and Disorder on America’s Streets,” giving state and local governments the authority to involuntarily hospitalize unsheltered people to confront “endemic vagrancy, disorderly behavior, sudden confrontations, and violent attacks” that, as Trump claims, have made cities “unsafe.”
