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Many are criticizing the way city of Laredo code enforcement conducted a clean up in central Laredo picking up the homeless people's belongings and throwing them in a garbage truck.
“I was asleep when they kick me out. We don't have anywhere else. Because we get kicked out from everywhere."
This homeless man is re-living the moment when city code enforcement employees began cleaning an area of San Bernardo.
Asking homeless to leave…taking their belongings and tossing anything left behind in a garbage truck.
The reason, business owners in the area complaining about these people.
"Some of us we shoot up and we are doing drugs in front of everybody which I think its wrong. Sometimes there are family and kids and we are doing it in front of them."
One homeless man told us.
According to the homeless coalition in Laredo fifty percent of these people suffer from drug abuse.
They say what happened between the homeless and the city was just wrong.
“Anytime you see a human being pulling their belongings out of a trash collection truck, there is something wrong with that." Jose Cavallos with Laredo’s homeless coalition told Pro 8 News.
Others see the treatment as unfair.
"I saw the police assisting the code enforcement people. Stealing the few possessions the homeless had." Jorge Gonzalez told Pro 8 News.
"No means was for the police department or the city to victimize the homeless." Investigator Joe Baeza told Pro 8 News.
Police say the city has an issue with chronic homeless and it’s also a health issue.
" The last thing you want next to a restaurant is a whiff of food, trash, human excrement, you don’t want any of those things."
Business owners agree.
"I very seriously doubt that’s what the city had in mind of rediscovering our flavor when you invite people from out of town and come here and do that."
Police say many of these chronic homeless have been arrested before and are repeated offenders.
"There were several people who I recognized who I've put on press releases for prostitution, theft these people are considered indigent cases."
Meanwhile a member of the homeless coalition says the city didn't handle the operation of homeless clean up properly.
And that there are other issues surrounding homeless in our city.
"There are other issues like the fact that we don't have a detox facility in the city that magnifies these issues."
The homeless coalition says they had a meeting Monday and were already setting up help for these homeless.
They say they want to get with the city and police to coordinate a better effort.