Authorities have also scrubbed up to 80 graffiti sites from Capitol Hill Parks as of Aug. 6, Interior officials said.

Back in early spring, Trump’s efforts upended the U.S. Institute of Peace, among other institutions and departments. On Thursday, authorities brought in an earth mover to clear out an encampment within sight of that hollowed-out institute’s handsome Constitution Avenue headquarters.

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.

The president said he was declaring a public safety emergency and his administration would be removing homeless encampments.