Immigration
Mar. 11, 2010
Rethinking Asylum For German Homeschoolers
Diane Uchimiya of La Verne College of Law examines the recent grant of asylum to a German family, for homeschooling their five children.
By Diane Uchimiya
When we think of someone seeking political asylum in the U.S., we usually imagine a person fleeing political persecution in a developing country or a dictatorship, not someone who could be free of the alleged human rights violation by simply legally crossing a neighboring border with the legal right to live and work indefinitely in that country. But on Jan. 26, 2010, an immigration judge in Tennessee granted asylum to the Romeike's, a German family, base...For only $95 a month (the price of 2 article purchases)
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