Relocate them where? Provide them basic necessities how? The government doesn't feed or house people in this country, it doesn't have the infrastructure to even try. And the fact is that private property rights are so enshrined that state and local governments would fight this sort of relocation.

You're right they should do something, even with the limited tools of the current government. But it is ideologically opposed to doing things directly.

We don't even have the cheese reserves like we did under Reagan. All the government can do is buy bullets and body bags.