Members of the West Virginia National Guard will be deployed the streets of the nation’s capital as part of the Trump

While federal agents clear out homeless encampments in Washington, cities like Waynesboro look to have conversations around the issue.

Donald Whitehead, Executive Director of the National Coalition for the Homeless, joins MSNBC’s The Weekend: Primetime to discuss the impact of Trump's purging of homeless camps and over-policing in Washington,

President Trump has given homeless people in Washington, D.C., an ultimatum, sparking concern among human rights advocates: Accept shelter treatment or go to jail. Donald Whitehead, executive director of the National Coalition for the Homeless,

David Barnes, who is homeless, told the NYT that he found his tent, which had previously been located in Washington Circle, missing after police officers had once again thrown his possessions in the trash. Barnes told the outlet that “Trump and his presidency has taken away two — not one, two — of my tents.”

Elsewhere, the Trump administration’s crackdown on immigrants continues, and in the American capital Washington D.C., where the President has seized control of the local police and deployed the National Guard, efforts to drive away the homeless have started.

About 70 homeless encampments in the nation’s capital have been taken down in recent months, but those efforts intensified this week after President Donald Trump deployed members of the National Guard to address what he said was a city “overtaken by violent gangs and bloodthirsty criminals,

Trump's announcements have raised fears that the government will use the Olympics to take actions that deprive homeless people of their human rights.