By Samuel Strait, Reporter at Large – August 12 2021 It remains hard to believe that after the colossal mess Gavin Newsom left as Mayor of San Francisco that he had any hope of becoming governor of the entire State. Yet in 2018 the voters of California overwhelmingly elected him to that position. In a bit over three and a half years he has taken his complete lack of leadership abilities to make a mockery of what genuine leadership is meant to represent. As we have seen in the first five parts of his "Follies" he has for California exceeded the level of disaster the Pandemic has reeked in the State by a wide margin. His policies on Immigration should be classified among the most demented and deranged of all his failings for it impacts in many ways all of his previous failings as governor, the economy, covid response, water, housing, and homelessness. Since 2018, Governor Newsom has had the welcome mat out for one third of the entire Country's illegal immigrants. In the process he has spent millions of tax payer dollars making it easier to gain entrance to California with paid legal aid. He has spent billions of dollars housing them, feeding them and allowing for free medical aid. His generosity does not end there. He has established policies that make it difficult if not impossible to have federal authorities remove the worst of the worst criminals that make up a significant part of the illegal immigrant population. He has made California a "Sanctuary State" in violation of federal law to protect people that have created enormous harm to the livelihood of many native Californians. In the course of treating most Californians like second class citizens, illegal aliens are elevated to have free education, the ability to serve on boards and commissions, and legal assistance to avoid deportation. Most Californians who wish they or their children have a decent education are afforded no such consideration. Californians are treated with a court date and incarceration should they violate even the most insignificant of laws. The effect on the poor and poorly educated in the work place is difficult to calculate with complete assurance, but it is one of the many impacts Californians are forced to accept in Governor Newsom's "Brave New World". In spite of a generous increase in the minimum wage in California, many illegal immigrants do not receive such largess and as a consequence many Californians have seen income for the lowest level of worker decline. The economy has suffered, illegal aliens are flooding across the border bringing Covid with them unchecked, water, homelessness and housing each have added burdens that are not being resolved with the most recent " nonevent at the border". When it is all added up, Newsom's elitist attitude towards his State from the Governor's mansion or perhaps his Knob Hill home is unconscionable and grotesque, not befitting that of the primary caretaker of the citizens of California. No matter how often Governor Newsom elects to put on his blinders, illegal immigration in California has grown to a whopping 8.3 million criminals in California alone. Growing from 16.6 percent of California's population to nearly 25 percent since Newsom has been in the governor's mansion. No matter how sympathetic Californians are to those that are flooding into California from Mexico, Central and South America, it is simply not sustainable. While Newsom plays politics with his wealthy friends, he has little to fear from the effects of his policies. His multi million dollar lifestyle has little in common with those that suffer the most from his insensitive, arbitrary, and despotic path carved through the ranks of ordinary Californians. It should be well past time to end Newsom's Follies.