A momentary stay of execution on the Miami-Dade plan to arrest those they made homeless, but for how long?

Florida Action Committee first broke the news that Miami-Dade granted a temporary reprieve to the plan to round up the homeless registrants in Hialeah on May 6th under threat of lawsuit. However, this reprieve is very temporary; in fact, the stay of execution can be lifted as early as May 10th. In the meantime, there is a lot of interesting factoids about the city's plan to move the homeless registrants away from Hialeah:

The plan to move the camp to Kendall is in serious jeopardy: It was suggested a couple of weeks ago that the camp be moved by the Krome Service Processing Center (a facility run by Immigration and Customs Enforcement), but NBC Miami reported a "chaotic" emergency meeting overrun by outraged residents (or, as I prefer to call it, a lynch mob). Considering the suggested camp was more than a mile from the nearest bus stop and lacks electricity, running water or bathrooms, it should be understandable the reluctance of camp residents to move. Protests at the new camp took place on Sunday.

The Miami-Dade police isn't exactly doing much about the crisis at the moment: Considering MiamiPD's recent problems with police brutality, it is probably a good thing they adopted a "wait and see" approach to the looming homeless camp crisis. “The last thing we want is to have to take any enforcement,” Detective Alvaro Zabaleta says. “It just depends how everything lays out between now and May 6. It’s hard for us to have a plan of action if we don’t know how things are going to go.” Miami-Dade Police showed up Sunday night along with the so-called Homeless Trust but not to arrest anyone; instead, they claimed to be offering "resources" to the registrants.

Miami-Dade officials have succeeded in finding housing... for only ONE current camp resident: Ron Book likes to tell the media that there are plenty of options for camp residents but in reality, (as told by the Miami Herald), "Even so, he estimated the county is housing fewer than a dozen registered sex offenders in a system that provides some sort of shelter — be it a bed or an apartment — for more than 8,000 people. In a May 2 letter to the county, a Legal Services lawyer threatening a lawsuit over the planned dismantlement said Miami-Dade was only able to place a single camp resident in housing."

Ron  does not live in Miami, yet Ron Book has exceeded his stay as head of the Homeless Trust: Ron Book has been granted Emperor status at the Homeless Trust despite not even living in Miami-Dade County. He is the shot caller for this controversial organization: "Book has held the Homeless Trust chairmanship post since 2004, and exerts enough authority over the county’s homeless agency that he’s considered the de facto head of the tax-funded operation. In interviews, he has described holding veto power over day-to-day spending and housing decisions made by the paid staff. He also serves as the only authorized spokesman for the department." Interestingly, the Trust has been denied millions of dollars in federal assistance. I can understand why.

Insanity is doing the same thing repeatedly expecting a different result each time. We have the same players in the game (Ron Book, many of the same county commissioners (Pepe Diaz in particular),  and the same game plan (Julia Tuttle Shorecrest, Allapattah, now Hialeah). This isn't even SSDD, folks, this is the same shit from the same assholes.

I have a better solution-- Repeal the Lauren Book Residence Restriction Ordinance, toss Ron Book out of the Homeless Trust, sen recidivist Ron to prison, repeal and replace Senator Bimbo, do the same to Pepe Diaz and Bovo, and send these corrupt pols to Guantanamo Bay. Problem solved.