On the other hand, regarding what I wrote, I was rethinking this over, and realized that you’d be sending an indirect message to them that you want to get closer and welcome a part of them into a part of your lives.
You dont give a nobody a gift, you know. so you have to realize you’re opening a door where there really shouldnt be one.
I dont have an answer for you. Oh except that now it just came to mind a halacha I once read that it said we are not allowed to give a gift to a goy. We have to make it like it was due to them for some service they provided or something to that effect. In other words its wrong to just hand over gift.