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We're already in Deep Space 9.

https://memory-alpha.fandom.com/wiki/Bell_Riots

By the 2020s, the American government reacting to serious problems of homelessness and unemployment created special Sanctuary Districts (essentially walled-off sections of the city grid) in most major cities. Unfortunately while established with the benevolent intent of providing free housing and food, as well as prospects for future employment the Sanctuaries quickly degenerated into inhumane internment camps for the poor and mentally ill. Even though people with criminal records were not allowed inside Sanctuaries, it didn't take long for the homeless and unemployed to be joined by violent social outcasts. These groups were referred to by their slang terms gimmies, dims, and ghosts.

Let's hope after these bad times we can start the real federation. I won't be around to see it.