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I don't want anyone to be homeless, daughter or otherwise. Nevertheless, criminalising homelessness is unlikely to help.

How long have there been attempts to stamp out prostitution? Centuries? Millennia? At some point, and that point is passed, the retrogrades would do everyone a favour by working to providing alternatives and get better outcomes than trying to send in the police. Arresting these 3 septegenarians:

* Is a waste of taxpayer money.

* Will have no impact on the ability of prostitutes to sell their bodies.

* If it does have an impact, will probably make the lives of prostitutes even worse, somehow.

* Will save no failing marriages.

Something can simultaneously be horrible and legal. Sex work should be in that category. If human trafficing is a problem concentrate on that - but this article is (and I repeat myself) the US government at its most petty and ineffective.