It is obviously an abuse of the asylum system which is intended to prevent people from being jailed, persecuted, or executed. Failing to obey their own school laws is not persecution. I agree, but we already have a system in place to accept people like that and it works and is fair to all the applicants--many are even better candidates. These home-schoolers are just attempting to get around our immigration laws which is BS. This opens up a wide spectrum of "abuse and persecution" claims that are completely bogus.
when someone manipulates the system to get to america, can you really hold it against them? i cant. like i mentioned before, i know of marriages that are faked for immigration purposes. if you were to sell those folks out and tell the INS that the marriage was faked, i would think you were a jerk. abuse of the immigration system is a very very minor crime.
again, my belief is that virtually anyone who wants to move to america should be able to. not only am i glad to have these people who are different and interesting here with me, looking sexy and cooking exotic foods and generally being awesome, it would maybe pressure other countries to shape up or lose their populations. of course we would need to stop giving everyone free healthcare and other crap. i would also like to note that okies point about meddling in another countries laws makes zero sense and it appears to me she is just opposed to home schooling.
I'm wondering...why is asylum necessary? Is there a genuine possibility that the Germans could demand extradition and throw these parents in jail? Why couldn't they simply immigrate and become American citizens? Or get work visas and live (and home-school) in America until their children are of legal age? I'm not a lawyer (nor do I play one on TV), but it seems to me asylum is necessary when a person needs outside protection from unlawful persecution. This sounds to me more like a couple that simply wants to circumvent one of their homeland's laws. By requesting asylum, they've dragged America into a dispute over the morality/justice of another country's legal system. Not a good situation, in my opinion.
asylum is the justification for our government, not theirs. it expedited the immigration process. the germans cant demand anything, and this has nothing to do with them and i am suer they dont care either way. thats why i say that this isnt "meddling". from the perspective of the germans it is not relevant why the americans have allowed them to come here. the germans have no reason to care about this at all. from their perspective all that happened was a family moved to america. they are not trying to circumvent germany's laws, they simply want to leave germany. the laws they are circumventing are our immigration laws. instead of getting in line and waiting, or being married to an american or getting a special work green card or whatever, they appealed to our immigration system for asylum. so maybe that was a stupid reason to give asylum. so what. the only victim in this crime is some other immigrant who could have gotten in.
Laws have to mean something. There are laws that I don't wholly agree with either, but I understand why we must enforce them. When any excuse at all becomes a easy ticket to America, we will be steadily overwhelmed.
i disagree. for example, if i was a cop i would never arrest anyone for pot possession. when i found pot in their car i would ignore it. i have no reason to believe we cant handle many, many more immigrants.
