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I would get out of that city. And I know you don't want to hear that and you don't want to go, but that is they're they're coming for you.
Is this Donald Trump executive order the end of the world for nomads? Will it impact us? Will it impact us a lot, a little, or a lot?
Hi everyone. Welcome back to my next video. There is a uh lot of discussion going around on YouTube and on all social media right now about a uh recent uh executive order that Donald Trump put out about homelessness and particularly homeless encampments. Uh and so there's been a lot of discussion about what will its impact be on us us nomads. And so I want to answer that question for you today.
This order is almost entirely about what goes on inside cities. I'll show you here in a minute. We're going to look at the whole order. And that's so important that you understand this. None of this stuff is being done in the dark. If if somebody comes up, there's a new bill in Congress. That's the end of the world. Well, you can go and read that bill. Do you know that it's not that hard to find? It's sometimes it takes a little sleuth work. It's I'll admit it. This took none. I did a Google search on Trump executive order camping. That's four words I typed in and it popped right up. And so you can go do that, too. So don't, you know, don't get caught up on what YouTubers say. Don't get caught up in what I say. Go prove it for yourself. You you none of this stuff is so hard that you can't understand it.
First, the most important thing to understand about this is that in our system of government, a constitutional republic, all the power is divided in the constitution between uh the cities, the states and the federal government. And in the federal government and in each one of them, the power in that entity, the power in the federal government is divided up even further to create checks and balances so that nobody gets too powerful. That's the whole goal of this entire country. Nobody gets too powerful when it comes to cities, state, and federal. Uh boy, cities are in a lot of ways virtually sovereign. States in most ways are sovereign. And then a certain number of powers are designated to the federal government. When it comes to homelessness in the city, the federal government has very little control or power. Donald Trump really has very little control or power. Mainly what he can do is uh direct funding and that's how the federal government has really whether Democrat or Republican. I'm going to avoid politics. I don't want to do any politics here. Whether Democratic or Republican, the federal government has used money to control the states. I I think that's a completely fair statement.
Well, that's basically exactly what uh this uh executive order, Trump's executive order does. And again, this is the uh standard operating procedure for the federal government. There's nothing terribly unusual about it. Uh he's very specific in what he wants done. And it's there's a list of uh basically of take money away from these people who are doing this that he doesn't want done and give it to these people who uh are doing what I want done. And then he gives you lists of what those things are. That's what the most of this document is. And uh is this the solution? I don't believe this is. But what here's the solution for all the sides to sit down and in good faith talk about it. What can we do to fix this?
Let's go back up a little bit to a recent Supreme Court decision. In June of 2024, the United States Supreme Court, which is basically Trump's court that he's appointed, very conservative, overrode some previous decisions that allowed cities to arrest homeless people in encampments. But, and you think, well, couldn't they always do that? No. Before it was pretty limited. The order before then, the courts had ordered that if the city did not offer enough beds to get you off of the streets, then you could not arrest people. That was the issue. That was the issue that came to the court in June of 2024. And so at any rate, the the court this court ordered that yes, you can just because you're not offering enough beds for the homeless, you can still arrest people for breaking the law of sleeping on the city streets. And since then, since June of 2024, cities and states across the country have been rewriting laws, putting out new laws, and it's becoming very, very hard. and those that change in the laws has allowed Donald Trump to issue this ex executive order again because he's going federal government encroaching on the what's decided at the city level he has very little power we'll look at what he does specifically try to do so before we do that let's answer this very simple question will this impact me as a nomad and unless you live in a city and sleep on city streets or or even anywhere in a city. I mean, there are a lot of places where if you're sleeping in a Walmart, this could still very negatively impact you, you could be arrested and evaluated for mental illness. Uh, and so, uh, yes, if you live, if you are a nomad and you are stealthing in a city, you could get caught up in the web of we're gathering up all the homeless and shoving them out or we're locking them up. Is it possible that you could get caught up in that web? Yes. Uh if you are stealthing in a city somewhere, I would and you found, you know, that that city is having a big problem with homelessness, with encampments. I would get out of that city. And I know you don't want to hear that and you don't want to go, but that is they're they're coming for you because it's a huge problem. And you know, when I'm a citizen in a city and there are harmless encampments everywhere, I don't want that. No one wants that. No one wants that. We all want a solution. There is no solution. So, what are we going to do? You're going to A lot of people are going to call their assembly person or the mayor or somebody and say, "I'm not going to vote for you unless you fix that." And then they're going to do something and you they're going to cast a web and lock them up or push them out or I don't know they're going to do something. And yes, if you are living in your vehicle in a city, you could get caught up in that web. And I would leave and go somewhere where that isn't their attitude, where it isn't a really big problem, where it's very unlikely I could get caught up in that web.
On the other hand, if you're like me and if you're out on public land, this this order has no impact on you whatsoever. If you are dispersed camping on BLM or national forest land or or maybe probably even state land, this is not going to have any impact. Zero no influence on van life, no influence on me. There's not a word in this that I can find about uh about national forest land or BLM land. It just doesn't impact us. It is strictly cities. We're going to look at the document and find out what it says.
Okay, folks. So, here we are. Let's look at these JPEGs. Um, this is the first one and I want you to see this so that you know this is the ending crime and disorder on America's streets section one purpose and policy. The first highlight there is uh the saying that uh all these things have made our cities unsafe. So, I want you to see that this is about cities. This is an order about cities. It almost has no other pertinance to anything else in the country. And then the second highlight there that says the overwhelming, it's talking about the homeless now, the homeless encampments, disorderly conduct there. The overwhelming majority of these individuals are addicted to drugs, have a mental condition or both. So we have narrowed down the purpose of this whole thing. We're talking about the homeless, homeless encampments who are uh mentally ill with mental illness or with drug or some kind of of addictive thing going on. And it wants to shift homeless individuals. Now, this is at the bottom, shifting homeless individuals into long-term institutional settings for humane treatment. That's the goal. His goal is to find a way to shift these people off the street into long-term institutional settings.
So, moving on to the next page here, he's uh he's telling the secretary of very top of the page, take the Secretary of Health and Human Services to take these appropriate actions. In letter I, it's the reversal of of federal or state judicial precedents and the termination of consent decrees. So he wants he's ordering them to look for find ways to to take people to court and change the laws to do what he wants and which is fine. That's something the federal government does all the time. I I which would be number two provide assistance to state and local government. Again funding that's that's what he's got. He he can find give funding through technical guidance, grants or other legally available means and implementation of maximally flexible civil commitment, institutional treatment and step down treatment standards. In other words, go look every possible way to keep the mentally ill off the streets. Fighting vagrancy on America's streets. And again, I've written out here redirect funding, but what he says is here, assess their discretionary grant programs and determine priority. So he wants to take grants away from people who don't do what he wants and give them to people who do what he wants. And this is a description, this the rest of the page of what he wants done because he thinks it's best for the solving the problem. This orders the Secretary of Health and Human Services, do not fund programs that fail to achieve adequate outcomes, including so-called harm reduction or safe consumption efforts that only facilitate illegal drug use. So, this is basically going to be about methadone programs, I think, and programs like methadone, which give people drugs. Uh, and he doesn't like that. He thinks that's a bad thing to do and not helping the problem. I don't know if it does or not. And down here at the bottom on B, the attorney general shall prioritize funding available funding to support the expansion of drug courts and mental health courts for individuals for which such diversion services serves public safety. Okay.
So, this is uh section C there at the top. Again, this is going to be about methadone and those kind of things with respect to recipients of federal housing and homelessness assistance that operate drug injection sites or safe consumption sites, knowingly distribute drug paraphernalia, or permit the use or distribution of illicit drugs on property under their control. Uh the attorney general shall review whether such recipants are in violation of federal law. And if they are in violation of federal law, then send the FBI in and lock them all up. Uh, of course, I read that in there. Bring civil or criminal actions in appropriate cases is what he says there. Okay.
And this just grabbed my eye and I thought it was kind of odd. uh here at the very end on section E or letter E, he orders the uh secretary of housing and urban development with the attorney general and secretary of health and human services to looking at the top uh highlight to collect health related information that the secretary of uh housing and urban development identifies as necessary. So he he want he wants to collect uh health related information from the homeless and then in section II to require those funding recipients to share such data with law enforcement authorities. And then, you know, I I wrote down HIPPA here because HIPPA has very strong requirements for medical information distribution. And I would think that if they're requiring HIPPA information that they would require a court order because uh man, that's one of the things that's sacred in this country. But I'm not a lawyer and I don't know anything and so I might just be displaying my enormous ignorance about the law.
this uh section six general provisions uh it's just uh legal ease talking about this nothing in this order shall be construed to impair or otherwise affect so on so on so on we have looked at it and as far as I can find there's nothing in here that affects the vast majority of of nomads van lifers unless you live in a city in your vehicle and then uh boy I honestly think you could get caught up in this net and it's possible bad things could happen to you.
Okay, so we have looked at the document and let me summarize what we've said. Basically, this whole bill just says, let's find every way we possibly can legally through funding, through court orders, through lawsuits to get as many as many of the mentally ill and the drugaddicted into recovery programs or locked up or off the streets or off the streets. However you have to do it, let's do that. And that's basically what the whole order is. It's only going to affect you if you are stealth parking in a city. And then it could I would just again I want to repeat it definitely could impact your life. You could get caught up in these very loosened laws and orders and uh it could it could be it could be bad for you. So you make your decision on what you want to do. Uh again out here no impact on my life. If you're living in dispersed camping, uh if you go camping on public land, uh then you're you're completely safe un you're unaffected by this law by this executive order.
So, I hope that helps you and helps clear ease your mind and clear up some of the misunderstanding. So, if you got anything out of this video, like us on YouTube, subscribe to the channel, hit that thumbs up button, and we'll talk to you on the next video.