[quote=AN][quote=flu][quote=carli]BG, do you realize how out-of-touch your comment is, about being afraid of immigrants who “want to emigrate to the US solely to spread their (incompatible, non-western) religious beliefs and customs to Americans and also onto their own offspring, later born in the US”??
Um, wasn’t that what our country was founded on? Freedom of religion and all that?
If they weren’t so frightening, comments like yours (mimicking Trump’s) would be truly comical.
Of course our country needs to guard against terrorists, but that does not extend to keeping out people of “incompatible non-western religious beliefs.” And please, do tell, what are those religious beliefs that are incompatible with those of us in the U.S.??
And you wonder why people consider you ignorant and racist.[/quote]
For me, I would be slightly terrified if the majority of the Americans are like BG. But, frankly I have faith there are more people in this country are more like my neighbors and people like you Carli. I just need to be reminded of that every so often. Thanks.[/quote]This is another reason why I’m loving living in CA and SoCal specifically. My kid’s school super diverse where they don’t even think twice about diversity. When I say diverse, I mean that no nationality/heritage have more than 10% of the class, unless you count mix races/nationality/heritage as a group. I’m not too concern about people like BG here in SD, at least my part of SD.[/quote]Well, AN, I guess “you people” residing 30 miles or more from the US/MX border don’t have to deal with hundreds of K-12 students crossing the border every day and filling up your local public schools (that’s dozens to hundreds of “out-of-country” students for every.single.public.school around here). You don’t have to visit your kid’s HS parking lot in the middle of the school day and see 1/4 to 1/3 of the parked student vehicles bearing license plates from Baja, CA. You don’t go thru the drop-off/pick-up lines in the morning at your kid’s elementary school and see up to half the license plates of other parents doing the same thing you’re doing in vehicles bearing license plates issued in Baja, CA.
If you live near an elementary school, you don’t have dusty vehicles bearing Baja, CA license plates parking on your street, with a parent or other adult getting out and walking students through the back gate of the school grounds in the morning and parking on your street again before the dismissal bell rings and walking thru the back gate to meet all the kids they brought to school that morning. This same group of Baja-licensed vehicles parked on my street every.single.school.day for the entire 12 years I lived there (so it wasn’t so apparent in front of the principal’s office that they were “commuting” from MX every day).
No? You are not putting up with this at your kids’ schools? flu? carli? AN? I didn’t think so. I have to laugh when I read all the posts here from “concerned-parent” Piggs residing in SD North City/North County who feel their local school might be accepting students from an adjacent neighborhood (who presumably don’t live in the attendance area of said public school) and by doing so is thereby lessening spots for their own kids. How would you like your school district to “give away” (knowingly or unknowingly … but with a wink and a nod!) dozens or even hundreds of seats in your local public school to “out of country” students??
Carry on continuing to “pat each other on the back.”
I want to know what all those “concerned” parents would do if the student parking lots at the likes of TPHS or Canyon Crest Academy began filling up with “dusty” vehicles bearing Baja, CA license plates. Picket your superintendent’s office? Follow some of these vehicles after school all the way down to the border and have your passenger document the whole excursion with their video camera? Work with your legislators to draft new legislation on how CA public schools “vet” a prospective student’s proof of residency? Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha ….. GOOD LUCK, folks!
Of course, none of you have the ability to put yourself in the shoes of other longtime RESIDENT SD County parents of school-age students who HAVE experienced this phenomenon day in and day out, year in and year out at their kids’ schools.
Oh, and carli? I’m not “afraid” of anyone. There are many Muslim young people (both male and female) occupying retail and restaurant positions around me and I have had nothing but good experiences with them. However, I do agree with Trump that the US needs to vet people from predominantly Muslim countries who are seeking visas into the country (for whatever reason) much more thoroughly than they have in the past. If that delays travel for people in these groups, then so be it. Along with all other countries in the world (most of whom look out for their own interests much better than the US does), the US has the right to modify its procedures to obtain a Visa to enter it, extend a traveler’s Visa, revoke a Visa/deport someone, as well as the procedures to qualify for permanent residency.
Glad to hear that you are feeling fine about the level of school “diversity” in your little “bubble,” AN. It’s pretty clear here than many parents on this board are hopelessly out of touch as to the effects our “open border” has on CA citizens, taxpayers, the state and all its subdivisions. Our open border is a direct cause of these (mostly fiscal) adverse effects (and all the “unfunded mandates” which go along with the border being “open”).
