I don't understand what the alternative policy would be. Obviously California has no control over federal immigration and border policy. So, if there's a homeless person in California, what do you do? Scan their ID and ensure that, not only are they an American citizen, but that they're a long-term California resident and... then what? Hope Georgia makes their assistance cushy enough to entice them away from California? In practice, just watch the encampments of economically disenfranchised people grow? Not that, at least from afar, Newsom seems not to have managed much about that. But the cynical parochial attitude of this piece does not seem to offer any solutions either.