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Ontario, CA, Tent City Residents Required to Wear Wristbands

 
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Ontario, CA, Tent City Residents Required to Wear Wristbands
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Tent City residents gather as the city of Ontario starts the process of sorting out who may stay and who must leave. The city issued wristbands – blue for Ontario residents, who may stay, orange for people who need to provide more documentation, and white for those who must leave. The aim is to reduce the number of people living there from over 400 to 170.

Officials begin thinning out the encampment, saying the city can provide space only for those who once lived there and can prove it.


Dozens of Ontario police and code enforcement officers descended upon the homeless encampment known as Tent City early Monday, separating those who could stay from those to be evicted.

Large, often confused, crowds formed ragged lines behind police barricades where officers handed out color-coded wristbands. Blue meant they were from Ontario and could remain. Orange indicated they had to provide more proof to avoid ejection, and white meant they had a week to leave.


Many who had taken shelter at the camp -- which had grown from 20 to more than 400 residents in nine months -- lacked paperwork, bills or birth certificates proving they were once Ontario residents.

"When my husband gets out of jail he can bring my marriage certificate; will that count?" asked one tearful woman.

Another resident, clearly confused, seemed relieved to get a white band -- not understanding it meant she had to leave.


Pattie Barnes, 47, who had her motor home towed away last week, shook with anger.

"They are tagging us because we are homeless," she said, staring at her orange wristband. "It feels like a concentration camp."

Ontario officials, citing health and safety issues, say it is necessary to thin out Tent City. The move to dramatically reduce the population curtails an experiment begun last year to provide a city-approved camp where homeless people would not be harassed.

Land that includes tents, toilets and water had been set aside near Ontario International Airport for the homeless. Officials intended to limit the camp and its amenities to local homeless people, but did little to enforce that as the site rapidly expanded, attracting people from as far away as Florida.

"We have to be sensitive, and we will give people time to locate documents," said Brent Schultz, the city's housing and neighborhood revitalization director. "But we have always said this was for Ontario's homeless and not the region's homeless. We can't take care of the whole area."

Officials believe the local homeless number about 140, less than half of those currently in residence. Schultz wants to reduce Tent City to 170 people in a regulated, fenced-off area rather than the sprawling open-air campsite it has become.

No other city has offered to take in any of the homeless who Ontario officials say must leave.

"So far I have heard nothing," Schultz said.

Even before the large-scale action Monday, police last week moved out parolees and towed about 20 dilapidated motor homes. A list of safety rules, including one banning pets, has been posted. The city says there is a threat of dog bites and possible disease from the animals.

The no-pet order caused widespread anger and tears Monday as some homeless people said they could not imagine life without their dogs. Many have three or four and vowed to leave Tent City before giving the dogs up.

"I will go to jail before they take my dog," said an emotional Diane Ritchey, 47. "That's a part of me as much as anything. The dogs are as homeless as we are."

Cindy Duke, 40, hugged Ritchey, who was sobbing.

"I had to give up my 6-year-old son because I was homeless and I'll be damned if I give up my dog too," Duke said.

Celeste Trettin, 53, rolled up in a wheelchair. She and her husband have an Ontario address but have lived for years in a truck, parking wherever they found a safe place. Trettin, who got an orange wristband, said she believed she would be able to find the paperwork to prove she was from Ontario.

"We thought if we came here we could save some money, but now they have pulled the rug out from under us," said Trettin, who has fibromyalgia, a painful disorder.
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they won't have to worry about wrist bands much longer soon it will be just bullets for them
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they won't have to worry about wrist bands much longer soon it will be just bullets for them
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branding the cattle so to speak.
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we need pictures here please. hf
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I'd leave and live at the beach case closed
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are they going to have a kegger?
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I'd leave and live at the beach case closed
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hawaii has miles of tent cities
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I don't understand why Ontario doesn't help to get the needed paperwork and maybe they are...

Where are the people who are not allowed to stay to go ?
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Ah, good ole... "Ontario officials, citing health and safety issues". Just a couple of days ago the police in the UK stopped the neighbours from rescuing a family from a burning house for health and safety reasons. Sadly they burned to death before the fire brigade got there.

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no NY but i have cousins in hawaii...but reside now in pa

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no NY but i have cousins in hawaii...but reside now in pa
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Phennommennonn, you could pass for mid twenties in your new avatar ...




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no NY but i have cousins in hawaii...but reside now in pa



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tyvm but tho im 5' 9", 150 lbs & a size 10, my ass says im 45
chuckle
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This is such a shame. There aren't that many people -- 400 and coming from as far away as Florida?

Of course, the tent cities in California are much more attractive with the beautiful weather and all.

If only a few other cities in Canada did what Ontario did, there wouldn't be such a problem. Just a few dozen people here and there at most.
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no NY but i have cousins in hawaii...but reside now in pa



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tyvm but tho im 5' 9", 150 lbs & a size 10, my ass says im 45
chuckle
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This is such a shame. There aren't that many people -- 400 and coming from as far away as Florida?

Of course, the tent cities in California are much more attractive with the beautiful weather and all.

If only a few other cities in Canada did what Ontario did, there wouldn't be such a problem. Just a few dozen people here and there at most.
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Haven't homeless people been coming to CA for decades? Between the liberal politics and the weather its highly attractive.
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no NY but i have cousins in hawaii...but reside now in pa



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tyvm but tho im 5' 9", 150 lbs & a size 10, my ass says im 45
chuckle
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I'll be the judge of that! Ok, go ahead Phennommennonn. Lets see it.
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This is such a shame. There aren't that many people -- 400 and coming from as far away as Florida?

Of course, the tent cities in California are much more attractive with the beautiful weather and all.

If only a few other cities in Canada did what Ontario did, there wouldn't be such a problem. Just a few dozen people here and there at most.


Haven't homeless people been coming to CA for decades? Between the liberal politics and the weather its highly attractive.
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what was it recently arnies now providing a homeless spot? i had the article. was posted on here too.
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I don't understand why Ontario doesn't help to get the needed paperwork and maybe they are...

Where are the people who are not allowed to stay to go ?
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i dont even wanna suggest anything hiding
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how soon before california or hawaii does this?
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here was the article i was lookn for earlier

Schwarzenegger Opens California Fairgrounds to Homeless Camp

[link to www.bloomberg.com]
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Kevin Martin there?
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here was the article i was lookn for earlier

Schwarzenegger Opens California Fairgrounds to Homeless Camp

[link to www.bloomberg.com]
 Quoting: Phennommennonn

Thats so cruel and wrong! At the very LEAST they could wait untill the camp is open!
Send them to Arni'e and Maria's mansion....
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After the tagging theyll round them up into the fema camps I think.

hiBye Bye Freedom, Bye Bye Liberty or at least the illusion of it.
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And after that maybe theyll come for you .
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This is where they will release the Weaponized flu strain.

Then they will mandate all get the vaccine with the flu strain in it.

That is how it will begin.
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Thats so cruel and wrong! At the very LEAST they could wait untill the camp is open!
Send them to Arni'e and Maria's mansion....
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wait just wait.....theres more parts to this mini series.
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Can you shape shift for us op PLZ, change your avatar, i want to see your true reptile form
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Can you shape shift for us op PLZ, change your avatar, i want to see your true reptile form
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What does the little man inside you say?, see you got to listen to the little man.
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Kevin Martin there?
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i heard his domain owsweather is for sale. guess he packed it in?
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