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Total UK contributions to EU = something like $180 per taxpayer per year, USD equivalent at 1.4. The UK had control over its own borders — it was under no obligation to invite immigrants from outside the EU. In fact, under EU rules, it could send them back from whence they initially entered the EU.

As far as skill sets, Schengen simply meant that all citizens of EU countries could work and study where it best suited them in 28 countries. It is/was a huge boon to 500 million+ human beings.

People need to think beyond nationalism when thinking about such regional blocs. Don’t think: “those damn immigrants will steal my jerb.” Think: “wow. This is amazing. I now have access to many other countries, not just my own back yard.”

I’d love if the US became part of such a regional bloc with some countries to the north and south 😉

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By my revised estimate: 2400 students on the trolleys coming from the southernmost station near the border.

“Thousands” crossing by car driven by their parents. Say 3000?

“A thousand” by car driven by students themselves.

We’re up to 6400 students, or 3.2% of entire student population. If it’s concentrated in certain districts, it doesn’t seem to be a county-wide issue, and the total number of students is relatively small compared to county population.

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I read that as “Brexit nipple”, then thanked Gerd that the Queen’s areola was not pictured in this thread.

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Work the math.

San Diego school district apparently has 130,000 students. Probably 200,000 counting suburban schools outside the city.

How many kids are in those “throngs”? What is the capacity of a trolley?

The trolleys seem to run three-car trains, with I’d say a sitting/standing capacity of 100 per trolley car. Say the pertinent period is two hours, and there are eight trolleys per hour on the line during rush hour (apparently frequency is 1x per 7.5 minutes).

100 x 3 x 8 x 2 = 4800 people. Assuming 50% of each trolley car is full of border-crossing students (a high estimate), that’s 2400 kids per day.

About 1.2% of the entire student population of the county. They’re also mostly linguistically homogeneous (Spanish as primary language, vs possibility of local languages only if originating from further south in .mx), so teaching them English should be easy vs a more polyglot student population.

Am I missing something?

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spd, there is no such thing as an “edge case,” here.

I’m saying the number of students that meet all three conditions approaches zero.

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bearishgurl: the number of kids that:
(1) have US citizenship
(2) live in Mexico
and (3) go to school in the US,

is probably an edge case since all three conditions need met.

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bearishgurl: seems like most of the kids mentioned in the articles are non-resident CITIZENS. Exactly how common is this? I’d think there was a limited supply of such people.

As far as non-resident, non-citizen children crossing the border to attend school daily, I think the border guards would have something to say about that – eventually.

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Disagree. Fight rudeness with rudeness. White trash needs to be put in its place.

If other rug-rats got a lesson in how not to be a common scold in English, maybe it will stick with them till adulthood.

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Why not speak in English? If the lady was being a female dog, no shame in embarrassing the living hell out of her.

(Actually, female dogs are generally most polite.)

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Happily unchurched here. If my social life revolved around a church … yuck.

I bet that the younger generation from Oklahoma would JUMP at the chance to move to San Diego, at least for their 20s.

If I drive cross country, I want a custom license plate. UNCHRCHD 🙂

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Dressing better isn’t the sign of anything other than vanity. IMHO. 🙂

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Why don’t you get a 2k mortgage on a nice 3/2 condo and enjoy San Diego rather than running to Crapholia, USA?

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Realistically, what % of San Diego residents are here on H1 visas?

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Can California leave the US so they’re not stuck propping up Mississippi and Oklahoma?

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Haven’t seen “Threads.” Do you mean “The Day After?”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yif-5cKg1Yo&t=3040

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