The Wisconsin GOP Nazi type concentration camp bills would make it a Class C misdemeanor criminal offense for the homeless community to set up temporary outdoor makeshift residence shelters at public properties, which have not been designated as a State grant funded homeless structured camp or a recreational camp site by municipalities and the Wisconsin Department of Administration (DOA).
By H. Nelson Goodson
Hispanic News Network U.S.A.
January 13, 2024
Madison, Wisconsin - A public hearing was held on January 9, 2024 for Wisconsin State Assembly Bill 689 (https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/related/proposals/ab689) and a public hearing on December 6, 2023 of State Senate Bill 669 (https://docs.legis.wisconsin.gov/2023/related/proposals/sb669), which would create public grant funded Nazi type concentration camps to temporarily house homeless individuals and families at designated recreational camping and structured camping sites at public properties in cities, villages, towns and counties.
The GOP bills would also make it possible for authorities to have homeless individuals and families go through and complete a mental health and substance abuse evaluation in order to be temporarily housed at these designated camp sites. If they failed to comply and complete the evaluation conditions, the DOA will have the authority to expell them from the camp sites.
The proposed bills by the GOP/Republicans would also prohibit the setting up of temporary residence at public properties not designated as recreational camping or structured camping sites by municipalities and the DOA. A person who violates the prohibition is guilty of a Class C misdemeanor and may be be subject to a fine of not more than $500, imprisoment for not more than 30 days, or both, unless the person has no other reasonable options for obtaining shelter or the person would be denied admission to a homeless shelter because the shelter is at capacity.
The State grant funded shelters (recipients) would be evaluated for "pay for performance" and the DOA would hold from 10 to 50 percent of the eligible grant for at least 6 months, or until the recipient can show performance compliance, if not in compliance, they would have funding withheld by the DOA.
According to sources, the Cicero Institute has been lobbying Republican controlled State legislatures around the country to propose and pass such State grant funded Nazi type concentration camps to alleviate the homeless plight triggered by a lack of affordable housing, low income households (poverty-stagnant wages), health problems (high healthcare costs), domestic abuse (partner with children leaving abusive relationship) and racial inequality (unemployment, real estate redlining-discrimination in housing, and incarceration).
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear a case out of Southern Oregon, which deals with the Grants Pass case that banned homeless individuals from camping in public through enforcement of camping ordinances with fines. "In 2022, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals blocked Grants Pass from enforcing public camping ordinances through fines, saying it violated the cruel and unusual punishment provision of the U.S. Constitution’s Eighth Amendment. That ruling built off a 2019 decision out of Boise, Idaho, where the same court found a person cannot be criminally punished for sleeping in public, if there’s nowhere else for them to go," the OPB dot org reported.
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