Governor Moonbeam and others of his ilk had other priorities and illegals is one of them.
In addition, the movement for dividing California into two states: State of Jefferson movement would give the more “conservative” residents a chance for their votes to count in the Presidential elections.
The Orville Dam would likely wipe out a good many of those people and put an end to this movement.
Two birds with one stone so to speak.
It would also wipe out a substantial piece of California's water supply. I'm not sure that the left would want that, given what a commodity water apparently is in California already.
That said, splitting California into 2 or 3 states would not necessarily be a bad idea. Outside of San-Fran, LA, and the southern counties, the state is probably fairly moderate/conservative. Certainly, most of the people actually working on the Oroville situation right now are probably not snowflakes.
IMHO, of course.