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Advocates warn that mass arrests of Washington, D.C.’s unhoused residents are expected to occur this evening. Crews have already begun destroying encampments and throwing out people’s belongings.

“We believe at 6:30 p.m. federal law enforcement will begin systematically rounding up and arresting unhoused people on the street in D.C.,” Amber W. Harding, the executive director of the Washington Legal Clinic for the Homeless, told Truthout in an email. “They say they will ‘offer shelter’ and/or ask people to move on, and if they refuse they will arrest them. We do not have enough shelter beds for everyone on the street.”

In a subsequent email she wrote: “There is a mass effort expected this evening, not just tents, anyone who is homeless.”

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