[HN Gopher] Gavin Newsom invites world's homeless to California
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       Gavin Newsom invites world's homeless to California
        
       Author : lando2319
       Score  : 7 points
       Date   : 2021-07-22 22:20 UTC (42 minutes ago)
        
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       | retrac wrote:
       | 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.
        
         | kova12 wrote:
         | CA is one of the biggest states in the nation with a sizable
         | border, and it can absolutely affect federal immigration and
         | border policy should it so desire.
         | 
         | That's not even a matter here. Many homeless are USA citizens.
         | If you offer them food, drugs, and allow stealing from stores
         | with impunity - they will come and take advantage of your
         | policies. Try doing it in rural Texas - they will have your
         | guts for garters.
        
         | dragonwriter wrote:
         | > So, if there's a homeless person in California, what do you
         | do?
         | 
         | Well, traditionally, subject to them police abuse to get them
         | to move at least out of sight if not out of the state, or buy
         | them one way bus tickets to the farthest point possible, with
         | the threat of some kind of punishment if they hang around to
         | make them someone else's problem.
        
       | hirundo wrote:
       | Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,       With conquering
       | limbs astride from land to land;       Here at our sea-washed,
       | sunset gates shall stand       A mighty woman with a torch, whose
       | flame       Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name
       | Mother of Exiles. From her beacon-hand       Glows world-wide
       | welcome; her mild eyes command       The air-bridged harbor that
       | twin cities frame.       "Keep, ancient lands, your storied
       | pomp!" cries she       With silent lips. "Give me your tired,
       | your poor,       Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free,
       | The wretched refuse of your teeming shore.       Send these, the
       | homeless, tempest-tossed to me,       I lift my lamp beside the
       | golden door!"
        
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