Construction workers dressed in white hazmat suits and accompanied by bulldozers descended Thursday on a trash-strewn California creek bed in the heart of Silicon Valley to begin clearing away one of the nation's largest homeless camps.
About 50 mud-splattered, angry men and women dragged their few worldly possessions out of their tents and ramshackle huts, known collectively as The Jungle, and walked alongside a busy San Jose highway, startling passers-by who slowed down to watch.
‘People drive by and look at us like we're circus animals,’ said a sobbing Nancy Ortega.(Full story here).
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