At Washington Circle, near the George Washington University Hospital, Meghann Abraham, who has lived in a tent there for months, said officers took away her shelter. The night before, she had fended off a similar effort by federal agents by showing them a notice from the city giving her until Monday to leave.

Trump said this week that homeless people will be moved far from the city in his crackdown on crime. But details of the plan to do so are unclear.

Federal officials in Washington, D.C. swept through a large homeless encampment Thursday and dismantled it. It's part of the Trump administration's purge to crack down on crime across D.C.

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

President Donald Trump on Sunday pledged to remove homeless people from Washington, D.C., and put criminals "in jail," escalating a public safety push that city leaders say overstates current crime levels.

By adding outside troops to join the existing National Guard and federal law enforcement officers temporarily assigned to Washington, President Trump is exercising even tighter control over the city.

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.