Thursday, June 25, 2026

We Saw The Handwriting On The Wall

Back last spring, when Trump's administration was rounding up the homeless in Washington, D.C., we all thought that this was just the first step in "Trump's Master Plan." Just like in Nazi Germany, where they rounded up the homeless, Trump's administration is now talking about doing the same thing!


Pedro Jauregui, with the organization U.S. Vets in Long Beach, Calif., once spent a whole year getting one homeless veteran to come in from the cold.

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More than 30,000 U.S. military veterans are homeless, according to the latest government data from an annual one night "point in time count." That number is down significantly in the past decade, which most experts credit to a straightforward combination of robust funding and a philosophy focused on offering housing without prerequisites, called housing first.

While the Trump administration has promised new housing for vets, President Trump also signed an executive order last year titled "Ending Crime and Disorder on America's Streets," which leans heavily toward institutionalizing homeless people against their will. This winter, NPR obtained slides describing a proposed VA plan called "Safe Harbor," which would include veterans in that shift to involuntary treatment. Then in March, the VA put out a memorandum of understanding with the Justice Department about state court guardianship for veterans.
That’s the goal of Trump & Company: homeless detention centers alongside immigrant detention centers.

Who will be next?
Us?
The trans community? It sure looks like they are setting us up as the next victims of Trump wrath! 
Among the allegations against the companies are medical neglect, unsafe or inhumane living conditions, physical abuse and excessive force, understaffing and poor oversight, and lack of transparency. Given the allegations that have been made against some detention-center operators, critics are asking whether similar problems could arise in large-scale facilities for homeless populations if oversight and accountability are insufficient.
"What the administration has said publicly on this proposal is at odds with the documentation on the project and its pilot program. That original documentation was directly linked to the president's executive order, calling for involuntary commitment of people experiencing homelessness. I think it's disingenuous for anybody from the VA to say that this was meant for a completely different population," she said.
Through my lens, what I am seeing is a repeat of the 1930s in Germany. The Nazis used the label "asocial" to classify people they believed did not fit their vision of a productive, orderly society. Does that sound familiar? We were also included in that group. If you want to know where the "Pink Triangle" came from, you only have to look at the Nazi concentration camps, where we were required to wear a pink triangle badge to identify us. So wear it proudly—many trans people, lesbians, and gays were killed wearing it.

In addition, the Nazis had their own "immigrant" problem with the Roma, whom they put into forced labor camps.

In states around the U.S., there are already "forced labor" camps reminiscent of the Jim Crow era. In federal prisons, inmates are forced to work for the shocking rate of around $0.12 to $1.15 per hour! When I had to be certified for military-spec soldering back in the '90s, there were a number of prison guards who were also getting certified. They joked all the time about how they had a "captive" workforce.

In Germany at the time, the concentration camps were run by millionaires—only now, it is billionaires.

The parallels are unbelievable.



What is instore for us? We will know a more this November... will Red win or Blue... it could be a matter of life or death for us.

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