[quote=SK in CV][quote=bearishgurl] I’ve lived, breathed and worked in the situation I’m describing here for 30+ years.

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That’s exactly my point. You know your experiences. You know what other people tell you. What you don’t know is actual facts. You have no idea what goes on outside of your little, tiny, miniscule world. You hear of 3 women crossing the border to have babies and think every woman is crossing the border to have babies. You hear about a few families that live in Mexico and send their kids to school in the US and think it’s happening thousands of times. Your experience is not the rest of the world. Your experience may not the slightest resemblance to the rest of the world. You have “opinions” about why hospitals might close. No actual facts. Every little brown kid isn’t out to steal your milk money. You, and Trump, are railing against the wrong boogeyman.[/quote]Again, SK, you’re being recalcitrant, here. I DO have longtime contacts in the medical field around here and have been around these folks all of my adult life. I NEVER STATED here that hospitals could close. I stated that SOME ( a few) of the local public SCHOOLS could close if all the “illegal” students and those “anchor baby” students who were current residents of MX suddenly stopped attending them every day. This would only happen if they were unable to cross the border every morning to do so. I don’t HEAR about anything. I SEE it, my kids have SEEN it and we have SEEN it all with our own eyes. In addition, I am a local criminal justice retiree. You can’t take that experience away from me. The difference between you and me is that you apparently lived in a “bubble” when you resided in SD and obviously didn’t realize these things were going on to the degree that they actually are. And that’s okay. There are a lot more of you out there so you aren’t alone :=0