President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders Thursday for the National Park Service to remove negative depictions of U.S. history from their monuments and parks, as well as directing park rangers to evict homeless people from the extensive network of park property in the nation’s capital.
The “Making the District of Columbia Safe and Beautiful” order largely focuses on crime in the District of Columbia, convening a task force with the Interior and Homeland Security departments and other agencies. It also orders maximum enforcement of immigration law in the city, seeks an increase in pretrial incarceration for accused criminals and calls for accelerated access to concealed carry permits for gun owners.
It also orders the National Park Service to remove any people living in homeless encampments from any federal land within the city that is under NPS jurisdiction, which includes Rock Creek Park and the National Mall.
D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser had not commented on the order Friday morning.
