Same with Las Vegas. Homeless people are camping everywhere now and begging at many, many intersections. They are just 'asking' now, but soon they will be demanding and then attacking.

I blame this on Obama and his entitlement philosophy.

The homeless explosion in California is well-deserved. I can only hope that Trump gets his way with regard to the citizenship question being on the next census.

The Kalifornia Cabal of Brown ,Newsome , and The Getty money have succeeded wildly.
The have turned one of the greatest pieces of geology on the planet and under the guise of environmental technocracy ,it is rapidly becoming a ship hole. Not a problem for those with a large wall.

Basic Rules for Government:
1) If you want less of something, tax it.
2) If you want more of something, subsidize it.

One only need look at what California's government has been taxing and subsidizing to understand the rise of the homeless and legal & illegal poor and the flight of middle class homeowners and the rich.

In the hazed perception of the left, the poor and drugged-out are makers and the middle class and the rich are the takers.

Silicon Valley is the exception. My theory is that its occupants are so wealthy, they are willing, even happy, to look the other way.

In a particularly applicable and recent case, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Boise, Idaho police can not evict squatters setting up tents in public parks and other public places within city limits. What was their reasoning? That it was "cruel and unusual punishment" - even though they never appear before a judge and no "sentence" is ever delivered... My hope is that this one gets appealed to the Supreme Court and overturned, as this is just ridiculous.

You really need to move out of there. We here in Indiana will take you in. Of course we like people who will work, which you won't have any problems with.

I'm not sure about other states, but I learned today that in Texas if a youngster shows up at a public school with no birth certificate, no SS #, no identity card, and said parents kicked him/her out, they can enroll in school. I'm glad they are getting two good meals a day but this is not my idea of a solution. I was told they sleep in cars and when weather permits in the parks. I intend to study this further. Will report back. We send tons of money to Central America and don't do anything for our children? Something is wrong with this! I'm going to give some elected officials wake-up calls!

Yet another side effect of trying to forcefully change personal responsibility to “social” responsibility.

See also the horror stories about Seattle's homeless addicts:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpAi7...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yM12W...
They just defecate and urinate on the sidewalks or wherever they happen to have plunked their tents. Garbage everywhere. Maybe they could all be put on a boat and sent to some uninhabited island, the way old England populated Australia.

They want homeless people. If they don’t have enough, they just create policies to make more.

But...but...we're all "oh-so-concerned" and progressive here, how can this be true?

Update: So, I took the day off yesterday and when I was driving my kids to school I was stopped at that same intersection with my kids in the truck with me. Some hobo walked right in front of my truck leering at us through the windshield cussing and yelling. My son said, "What's wrong with him?" "Oh, he's just crazy, son." Then, no more than about an hour later I stopped by the store to get a couple supplies and two hobos got into a screaming match and fist fight right outside the door.

Another man was walking in with me and said something about it. I said, "Yeah, we're leaving California soon. I'm going to just take this in and enjoy it while I can." He laughed really hard at that.

Bat scat crazy in Cali...

This is the real harm that charitable giving causes. Some small percentage of the public is giving these people money, and enough to make it profitable to be a bum, so people are entering that occupation.

I've seen enough of these phony homeless get into nice cars at the end of their shifts that I'm thinking of taking pictures to post in the places they infest. But we need a strong public backlash against the so-called good samaritans, or the problem will never go away.

(And yes, I agree, the urban-planning housing cartel needs to go away too. But most "homeless" are faking it.)

This is also happening in Seattle. Back in 2015, I made quite a few trips to the Emerald City. Blue tarp tent encampments would wander around, beneath various underpasses along with just a few block outside the homes and neighborhoods of friends. I rarely ever saw a moving body -- just the tents, carts and the piles of debris.

Michael Medved hosts a radio show - he is a conservative and lives in Seattle. His take: the growing and roving bands of homeless could be handled -- but the city admins like to have the homeless out there in the open, to actively showcase the wealth disparity.

Some friends recently posted on a hiking meetup site information regarding "taking food out to Tiger Mountain Camp 4" -- Indeed, these camps are now becoming permanent fixtures. If you tax something, you will get less of it. If you subsidize something, you will get more of it. Camp # 4 will be even larger next year.

I was going to post a link to a great video that KOMO out of Seattle created -- nearly an hour long. But YouTube removed it. Someone else posted recently on GG: https://www.galtsgulchonline.com/post...

I don't blame people for being homeless per se, I think it is the fault of people in the government with their zoning laws, etc.
If you mean it is because of illegal immigration, I guess such people will have to be expelled. (We can't have people just jumping the fence; at a minimum, there ought to be at least a medical examination, to screen against contagious diseases).
As to a wall, someone has brought up the issue of eminent domain. I can't believe in eminent domain, as it is a violation of private property rights. But perhaps if the wall were built right on the border line, that would be acceptable.

Just wait until we have another recession, then things will spin out of control. Do we have the intestinal fortitude to deal with the problem or we will sit idly on the wall with Humpty Dumpty until it all blows up. The only possible way out of this mess is to elect people to the city, county, state, and federal government who are fiscally conservative and are term-limited.