SACRAMENTO, CA—In a move to prevent Californians from fleeing by the millions, Gavin Newsom announced a ban on gasoline automobiles this week.
The law will make it so that Californians can't drive away and escape the state in a matter of hours, forcing them to instead form migrant caravans and make the treacherous trek across the blistering deserts of the Southwest.
"Now, they'll have to cross the desert on foot," Newsom said as he handed down the order. "I'll show them to flee my progressive utopia! Ha ha ha ha ha!"
Newsom also redirected the small amount of water left in the state to his personal reservoirs. Poor, disheveled survivors of the hellscape stood beneath his fortress, begging for a drop.
"Do not, my friends, become addicted to water, or it will take hold of you and you will resent its absence!" Newsom shouted after blasting them with water for a few precious moments.