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It's not just an opinion. I chose to sell my house due to high influx of undocumented  immigrant children in my local school AND the lack of enforcement of various local laws in my neighborhood. The local school did not receive adequate funding, test scores were really bad, and my neighbors were quickly selling their houses. I stayed for 10 years after the first people started moving out. I meet with the local school board, offered to take two weeks off and volunteer in the local school 2 years before my child reached kindergarten, and finally sat on my front steps and cried when I realized that I needed to sell the house. I wanted a good public education for my kid, not a religious private education (didn't get enough financial aid for the other privates). When I chose to buy again, my new house is less than 1/4 mile from the old one. Same community, but better schools. BTW, you might even mistake my child for one of the children living in a detention center.

We need to have an honest discussion about our immigration system and concrete answers.[/quote]

My grandparents sold their house and moved when black people started moving into the neighborhood. My grandparents were huge racists. I mean they justified it to themselves with similar rationales about schools and crime and how the black people were deficient in one way or another. But, it really just boiled down to them not wanting to live with and near black people. [/quote]

That's your grandparents, not me. My family is black and brown. I still live in the same community, different school district. Eat, shop, and live with the same people as the other neighborhood. Your grandparents didn't do that. How can you not understand the difference? [/quote]

DP.  At least pp’s grandparents were honest about what they were doing.  You put up a pretense of being part of the community, but you’ve removed your children from it because ultimately you think you’re too good for those neighbors.  You’ll slum it in their coffee shops, safe in the knowledge that you’re superior.[/quote]

You must be white. Coffee shops? Where do you live that you think that socializing with POC people involves a coffee shop?  Shaw? NoMA? [/quote]

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