GOP finally finds a group of illegal immigrants they don't want to deport...

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...large families of fanatical white Christians who are seeking asylum in the United States from the horrible oppression of not being able to home school their children in their home country!

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http://christiannews.net/2015/03/07/house-panel-approves-bill-that-would-grant-foreign-homeschool-families-asylum-in-u-s/

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I see nothing wrong with home-schooling (I was homeschooled for most of a year in 7th grade), if and only if the parents aren't insane or doing it for insane reasons.

If they can give a quality education (and I've noticed a lot of news articles popping up for how unprepared and brainwashed lots of homeschooled kids end up being), then home-schooling is okay. If they're just an excuse to brainwash kids, then no, not okay.

Okay, whatever, I disagree with this strongly, but the point is, even if you think home schooling should be legal, people should not be granted asylum because they can't home school their children in their home country.

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To say nothing of the creepy religious ones like this German family who think they're being persecuted.

what are you talking about joe these people look like a perfectly normal family and not at all like a creepy cult that wants to brainwash their children

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No reason for a German couple to flee to the US to home school their children. It is perfectly legal in several EU countries to which they could have just migrated without all the fuss. Denmark is one of them and German is an official minority language here, so tests could be conducted in German.

There is something strange about this story. Looks like an excuse to circumvent US immigration rules.

Yeah, it's pretty clear that an American homeschooling organization just brought them over here so they could be used as a test case. Germany is the only EU country that bans home schooling as far as I know; they could have easily just legally immigrated within the EU.