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Homeless advocates are criticizing an executive order President Donald Trump signed this week to restore order. The executive order aims to “remove vagrant individuals” from city streets and get them into treatment for mental health or drug addiction disorders, even if that means involuntary commitment.

It’s 7 a.m. and the sidewalk along this industrial intersection at H and San Benito is crowded with tents covered in tarp. A 60-year-old man named Gary…

Cinnamon has lived in a make-shift structure near the grain silos, west of Palm Avenue and H Street, for more than two years. She says the homeless…