General Discussion

Reagan closed the nation's institutions in a shell game to convert to the promised, but never (or minimally) manifested, partially federally funded residential treatment centers throughout the country. Never implemented, it sent those mentally vulnerable to the streets and jails. Now, Trump wants to build them back as an excuse to confine (against their will) our nation's veterans who fought for the freedom to live freely--even on the streets. Some are seriously mentally ill and need help, but a lot are angry at what they have been through and choose this way of life. So, now, THIS to justify these jails, warehouses, and concentration camps for the "inconvenient," whether homeless vets (or other Americans), immigrants awaiting deportation, or this administration's enemies. Will we wake up and advocate on behalf of our nation's veterans? Saying they are all irreparably mentally ill is the newest (American citizen) version of saying they are all the most dangerous of the dangerous criminals when speaking to undocumented immigrants, imo.

Does anyone really think they will get the due process they deserve, and not a "one solution fits all" indefinite detainment to take them out of the nation's visual consciousness?