Utah approves internment camps for homeless people

The US state of Utah has this week approved a “mega camp” to hold 1,300 homeless people – in isolation, seven miles from the nearest town and with no transport links.

The camp will consist of locked units and inmates can be subjected to forced labour. Utah is calling this dystopia “work-conditioned housing” – but in reality, as the US National Homelessness Law Center (NHLC) has commented, it is “modern-day internment” for the poor and homeless. In the clip below, NHLC’s Eric Tars explains how billionaire-backed policies are turning homelessness into a full-blown human rights crisis:

The Utah move mirrors the UK Starmer government’s announcement, to please the racist far-right, that hundreds of desperate refugees will be forced to move to disused army barracks.

The Trump regime, as part of its deranged and lie-based criminalisation of anti-fascism, has targeted homeless people as the ‘homeless industrial complex’ providing ‘muscle’ for so-called ‘antifa’ and threatened to ‘take out’ anyone who stands up against the far right.

Featured image via the Canary