"The county isn't treating this like a humanitarian crisis," said Eve Garrow, policy analyst and advocate at the ACLU of Southern California, who has worked with desert residents. "Instead of providing aid, law enforcement displaces them to remote areas so far away from resources that it's a danger to their health and their lives."…
… The campers have different stories about how they ended up there: they escaped domestic violence, lost a home during a divorce or to a fire, faced eviction during the pandemic, struggled with addiction, were ostracized because they were LGBTQ+ or were forced to leave home…
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/jul/18/california-homelessness-crisis-mojave-desert
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