Mayor Keith Wilson plans to engage the community to reduce the number of unsheltered houseless individuals here; I sincerely hope his plans will succeed, (“ Portland mayor suggests Trump could crack down on city’s homelessness crisis, solicits donations for new shelters ,” Sept. 3). That said, the idea that the Trump administration might reward Portland for reducing homelessness by not subjecting Portland to “bulldozers and mass arrests by masked agents” is both ridiculous and dangerous.

We all know that Trump’s “crackdowns” in Los Angeles and Washington D.C . are not consequences brought down on these cities because of a lack of action on homelessness, crime, immigration or anything else. The crackdowns are about the Trump administration’s strongman desires to grab power, subjugate

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