I'm reading over emails to the Seattle mayor and council members demanding that they sweep huge groups of unsheltered people, often because of an incident (e.g. yelling profanities) involving one person, and it's surprising how many of these homeowners cc'd ICE on their emails.
Also how many of these homeowners explicitly demand "sweeps" (of encampments that the city, in most cases, later swept), despite the executive branch's insistence that this is an inflammatory term invented by those who oppose removing encampments.
Another theme: "Luring" of young white girls walking around local grocery stores with their parents by homeless "traffickers" as if this is how sex trafficking works
"My nine-year-old is now afraid to go to his school near the park" is a condition of PARENTS who teach children to be afraid of poor people, homeless people, and mentally ill or addicted people. Plenty of kids who grow up in/near cities are not taught this fear and don't have it.
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