The travesty of funding homeless people in California has been savagely and negatively impacted by the failure of the Federal Government to control illegal migration.
California hosts 2.8 million illegal immigrants. California spends $25.3 Billion dollars each year, for the care, shelter, feeding, education, legal fees, transportation, counseling, and so on. Each dollar spent on illegal immigrants, takes away from our indigenous homeless. That works out to be $54,000 (per year) for a family of six.
Pressure to care for the wave after wave of illegal immigrants has completely wiped out the capacity to meet homeless needs. Each year the illegal immigration problems grows. Each year the Federal Government forces illegal immigrants into communities that cannot afford to house them. Each year, the taxpayers in all of those communities are forced to pay more and more.
Where does it end? When can we stop the heartless bleeding of legal citizens to feed and shelter, heal, educate, counsel and in all other ways make the lifestyles of the illegal immigrants richer and better? The only way it will stop is if the Convention Of States forces the Federal Government to fix our shattered illegal immigration process. This problem cannot get fixed until all the illegal immigration is stopped. 
California has 130,000 homeless people. State and local governments spend in excess of $6.5 billion per year for their care, shelter and feeding. Shelter is a major slice of these costs. In Los Angeles County it is estimated that to provide one tent and one tent space for a homeless person is $60,000 per year. Illegal immigrants, not the homeless, are provided full-service hotel accommodations and/or proper living quarters in one of several repurposed convention centers or sports arenas. These repurposed centers do not have tents. They have indoor plumbing, recreation, full-service food and beverages, transportation to/from other immigration facilities, full, free, legal representation. Homeless on the streets of Los Angeles have none of this provided by the government. NGOs and local charities try to take up the slack but are increasing called away to service illegal immigrants. There is a limit to the capacity to meet so many needs.
Tough choices for any society; who do you love the most, taxpayers, homeless, or illegal immigrants? Money is not free. At the end of the day, all money flows from the largess and pockets of the taxpayer. Sure, the Feds can print more money. That drives inflation which is just another tax on all consumers and disproportionately harder on the poorest of us. Permanent solutions to these gritty problems can be difficult. Illegal immigration is the easiest to solve. Just stop them at the border and do not let them in. The lazy and corrupt immigration system that allows “anchor-babies," “catch & release,” immigration lotteries and zero penalties for law breakers must get fixed.
It is painfully obvious that the current administration will do nothing to fix it. It is imperative for the Article V Convention Of States solution to quickly become effective to have any chance at all to fix the system.
Millions of Mexican immigrants now live inside the USA, not to mention the many other nationalities from other countries also taking advantage of our pro-illegal immigration policy of the southern border. Countries with large diaspora living and working in the USA have an agenda to keep their citizens working in the USA and sending money back home. They cannot be relied upon to help solve our problems. In the United States alone, it is estimated that more than $148 billion was sent to individuals in other countries in 2017.
The poor, long suffering, taxpayer in the USA gets a double kick in the groin. First, the government takes more and more money from our pockets to enrich illegal aliens who have stormed our borders and crashed into our cities. Then those illegal immigrants who do work take money from our economy and enrich the countries from which they fled. This becomes one of the largest redistributions of wealth in the history of the world.
The Convention of States must succeed to bring to heel the runaway government spending and put into play real immigration reform.
