Local officials and advocates for the homeless are fearful that President Trump will take draconian action against homeless people, including pushing them into detention camps, when Los Angeles hosts the Olympic Games in 2028.

In recent weeks, Trump has appointed himself head of an Olympics task force and has seized control of local policing in Washington, D.C., declaring that homeless people will be given places to stay "FAR from the Capital."

"Based on everything that has happened so far ... I think you would have to be irrational not to worry about a worst-case scenario (during the Games), where federal troops are effectively forcing poor people on the street to relocate to what is essentially a detention center somewhere out of sight," said Gary Blasi, a professor emeritus at UCLA Sc

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