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Obama Admin. Trying to Deport German Evangelical Family Seeking Asylum Over Homeschooling

Mar. 15, 2013 12:29pm Tiffany Gabbay

Admin Seeks to Deport the Romeiekes, a German Evangelical Family, in Homeschooling case

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Earlier this month, it was brought to light that a German family who immigrated to the U.S. seeking political asylum may soon be deported by the Department of Homeland Security — and it all involves homeschooling.

Uwe and Hannelore Romeike, along with their six children, wanted to home-school their children in Germany, but were not permitted to do so under German law. They sought and were granted political refuge in the U.S. by an immigration judge in 2010, but now the Department of Homeland Security is claiming that German laws banning homeschooling do not violate the family’s human rights.

U.S. Immigration Judge Lawrence Burman, who granted the Romeike’s asylum, said that “the (German) government is attempting to enforce this Nazi-era law against people that it purely seems to detest because of their desire to keep their children out of school.”

According to the Associated Press, however, the Board of Immigration Appeals found Burman’s assertion to be erroneous, adding that the actual record did not support “inflammatory suggestion that it is a Nazi-era law.”

The Romeike’s appeal to the 6th Circuit will hear oral arguments April 23.

“The Obama administration is basically saying there is no right to home school anywhere,” Michael Farris, founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association (which is representing the Romeike family) told Fox News. “It’s an utter repudiation of parental liberty and religious liberty.”

“They are trying to send a family back to Germany where they would certainly lose custody of their children,” Farris said. “Our government is siding with Germany.”

Farris maintains the Germans frown upon home schools because they believe they breed “religious and philosophical minorities” — something he says they would rather do without in their country.

“That means they don’t want to have significant numbers of people who think differently than what the government thinks,” he said. “It’s an incredibly dangerous assertion that people can’t think in a way that the government doesn’t approve of.”

Farris quipped that the Obama administration could grant millions of current illegal immigrants what amounts to amnesty, yet his administration is seeking deport one German family.

“Eleven million people are going to be allowed to stay freely – but this one family is going to be shipped back to Germany to be persecuted,” he said. “It just doesn’t make any sense.”

If returned to Germany, the Romeikes face thousands of dollars in fines, prison sentences and the potential of losing their children, according to reports in the Associated Press and Fox News.

“Families that want to have an alternative education can’t get it in Germany,” Farris said. “Even the private schools have to teach public school curriculum.”

The family decided to move to the Smokey Mountains in Tennessee after German authorities threatened to take away the parents’ custody.

“We are very happy here to be able to freely follow our conscience and to home school our children,” Uwe, a classically trained pianist told Fox News. “Where we live in Tennessee is very much like where we lived in Germany.”

“If we go back to Germany we know that we would be prosecuted and it is very likely the Social Services authorities would take our children from us.”

According to Uwe, German schools were teaching their children values not in line with their own, as Evangelical Christians.

“The German schools teach against our Christian values,” he said. “Our children know that we home school following our convictions and that we are in God’s hands. They understand that we are doing this for their best – and they love the life we are living in America on our small farm.”

“The right of parents to direct the upbringing and education of their children has been at the pinnacle of human rights,” he said. “But not in this country.”

According to the AP, Romeike also claimed the schools taught witchcraft based on a game played by classmates of his wife when she was in the seventh grade “that involved pushing chairs and glasses around, and dangling a pendulum.”

“It’s [Germany] a democracy. They respect human rights,” said Michael Donnelly, an attorney and HSLDA’s director of international affairs. “But in this area it’s frightening how they treat people who want to do something very simple. There are 2 million children home-schooled in the U.S. … This is not a threat to the German state, but they are treating it that way, and it’s wrong.”

To learn more about how the case has progressed and how the Romeike’s are faring, the family’s attorney and founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), Michael Farris, will speak to the Glenn Beck Radio Program on Monday, March 18, 2013 at approximately 9:05 a.m. ET. Be sure to tune in here.

Those interested in home-schooling or in helping the Romeike family can visit the HSLDA or the National Home Education Legal Defense for more information.

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Smokey_Bojangles
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:18pm
And Mexicans come in and get free tuition,but veterans get tuition cuts. I guess more Mexicans vote democrat than soldiers?

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- naughtycal
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:37pm
  Is obvious our government is only self serving it’s own growth. It’s only a matter of time before the jack boots,and black bags brigades invade homes and take U.S. citizens to Fema camps.
  It obvious that resistants will be futile for those not willing to die for liberty
  
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- Leopold
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 3:12pm
  I’m appalled by what’s happened to this family. I’m from Germany. Actually, just got back from there
  
  My mother told me about the story, they think this family is crazy. It’s maddening
  If something isn’t working the government should fix it.
  
  Holder’s appeal against this family fits right in with their ideology. Only government can educate our children. It is not even allowed to take your child out of school a day earlier for going on vacation.
  Parents have to ask the principal, who will say no. Because of precedent setting.
  
  However, I have to defend Germanys education system somewhat. It is mandatory to go to school for 12 years.
  
  There are 3 different kinds of schools. The lower level is 9 years and then you go to get an apprenticeship of 3 years, which includes some school.
  
  Next one is 10 years, that will shorten the apprenticeship by 6 month.
  
  Then 12 years which is the one for the really smart ones. A child has to be ready for this type in grade 4. Their final grades have to be at least 95% to qualify for university, which of course is subsidised by the taxpayer.
  
  Even waiters, who are serious about this line of work can do a 3 year apprenticeship. That goes for every trade there is, even a sales clerk takes 3 year apprenticeship.
  
  Everyone knows the quality of a German product is very good. The reason for that is the education. Before the financial crisis Germany was the largest manufacturer in the world.
  
  That does not happen just out of th
  
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- armyofnibiru
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 4:05pm
  this adminisration has judged them by their color,being christian is a bonus for these haters of liberty.denieing our rights and giving them to the govt in violation of the constitution is what he meant when he talked of negitive rights.my rights are positive.
  
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- satotbs
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 11:04am
  All this will go away if one of three things were to happen. Easiest-just have whole family repeat “no habla inles” when questioned, not so easy-hurry and have an anchor baby, and damn near impossible-make sure Pres. Obama’s aunt is deported first.
  
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- Wilma
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 9:26am
  It is not just Mexicans. Many immigrants from South America and beyond are given asylum.
  
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neverending
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:13pm
Why is anybody surprised with this? Just more of what is to come after handing the commie four more years – anybody awake yet?

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- john vincent
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 2:27pm
  yes, its neverending……………….
  
  u are right, no surprises, the subtle way the ‘religious’ people are classified as ‘no merit,’ it is pathetic. If these folks came here illegally @ the southern border, they would be welcomed, given homes, jobs, and an income- but this is a message loud and clear- Obama has plans-
  
  The idea of these folks losing children over principle is alarming—–but again, no surprise
  Is there anything this govt (USA) cannot get away with??
  
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- christianUSA
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 8:08am
  Opinion: while it is not surprizing that Obama is pro-unionized indoctrinating public schools for others, (his child attends at $34k+ private school) and against homeschooling it is revealing that he shoooove against it even to the point of singling out legal White homeschooling immigrates to deport and there by could be stripped of thier parential rights and Thier Children when he is otherwise supporting illegal immigrates refusing to deport them and pushing for thier full citizenship. This shows how much against homeschooling. And why were this family immigrating becuase same reasons the Christian pilgrims did for freedom to live worship and raise thier children in thier way. Is this action by administration, America US way or Equal justice and enforcement, I think not.
  
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Godsgopher
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:07pm
I recall a friends wife telling me about the German ban on home school years ago. I thought little of it at the time but I have become increasingly aware of its significants in light of the reports of C-scope and Core initiatives now taking place in America. At its heart this is about government indoctrination, and children are only allowed to know things that have the government stamp of approval.

So yes, the German government is right this does a great deal to reduce minority religions and philosophies.

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- birthright
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 2:19pm
  The Administration has to get rid of this family because they will soon be treating homeschoolers in the US the same way as they are in Germany. As a parent and a teacher I have seen the laws on homeschooling go from “you can’t do that because we don’t know what to do with you” to “ok, here are the rules” to “we need to know that your children are learning the same thing at the same time”. It is just a matter of time. We’ll have national laws on school attendance ages (earlier) and national curriculum where teaching doesn’t matter, just supervising the computer instruction and no one really cares if the children really learn anything, except the party line.
  
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- naughtycal
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 2:51pm
  I’m sure Hitler banned homeschooling as well. You can’t brainwash the next generation if they’re not in the local public indoctrination center.
  
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Politijack
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:04pm
Not surprised at all..

This is what happens when you are fleeing from Nazi`s into another country that is ran by..more Nazi`s…

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Southerner01
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:58pm
ASSylum? in the headline even? DOes anyone even proofread around here?

What is assylum anyway, safe passage for your glutes?

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- jcizarter
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:05pm
  Assylum is where people like Diane Fine Stein go because of their disorders.
  
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- pauli101
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:06pm
  this is not an ideological battle of left vs right, GOP vs Dems, Socialism vs liberty. This is ethnic warfare against white people.
  
  Why are hostile globalist elite defending Israel as a Jewish ethnostate with Jewish only immigration, but ravaging white majority Europe, North America into a multi-ethnic, multi-cultural Gulag with dystopian non-White colonization?
  
  Why do gullible Whites kowtow to hostile Jewish & crypto-Jewish elite, who butcher White soldiers in bankrupting wars, infiltrate & subvert our banks & spying agencies, indoctrinate us in classrooms & mass media, impose trillions in debt, & plunder our jobs & wages?
  
  East Asia is 99% yellow. Africa is 99% Black. West Asia is 99% Brown. But 3rd world colonizers are annihilating Whites, just as Chinese colonizers are annihilating Tibet.
  
  “Native” Americans are not native. They invaded from East Asia. Whites weren’t the only slave owners, imperialists. Muslims, Jews, China, India, Mayans, Africans all are guilty of slavery, imperialism. Whites were victims of Islamic, Jewish, African imperialism, slavery.
  
  Gullible Whites should reject subversive Jewish ideologies like libertarianism, feminism, liberalism, socialism. They should reject hostile slanders of racism, collectivism.
  
  Love to all humanity, but White people must unite & organize to advance their families, their fertility, their interests. Reading list:
  goo.gl/iB777
  goo.gl/htyeq
  amazon.com/dp/0759672229
  amazon.com/dp/1410792617
  
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- eaglescout1998
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 2:44pm
  I think the Blaze does need to hire new proof readers. When the Blaze reported on S.E. Cupp co-hosting a show on MSNBC, the piece included the following: “I think it’s incredibly important to go into quote-on-quote unfriendly territory sometimes so that you can have meaningful conversations,”
  
  I suspect the author meant to say “quote-unquote”, but even that’s incorrect. It should be “quote-endquote”.
  
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- Rayblue
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 3:36pm
  They don’t need new proof readers. They need proof reader one.
  
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team1blazer
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:58pm
If you are not allowing your children to be indoctrinated by the fascist government, you must be the enemy…..Hitler all over again.

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- CatB
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:15pm
  I do hope that the new Pope Francis .. being a Franciscan will put Catholic schooling back as a top priority .. I am not Catholic however ,,,, my son got an EXCELLENT education in a Catholic High School .. without the government indoctrination .. and with Christian values. Either home school or a religious school should be every parents first choice.
  
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FedUpAlready
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:58pm
With the Common Core and C-Scope ideology of this administration, did you expect any other position to be taken? Obama and his ilk are hell bent on removing any independent ideology from the public educational system. They too would make home schooling illegal, afterall, there is power in knowledge, and a well educated, armed citizenry is a free and independent citizenry. I pray this family is given full assylum and citizenship. They don’t think we owe them like Obama’s Aunt Zeituni and Uncle Oryango.

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- Myron_J_Poltroonian
  Posted on March 18, 2013 at 10:01pm
  Glad to see you like my icon. My Nom d’Blog is Myron J. Poltroonian. That was the name I used on the 1980 census long form that I filled out in San Francisco. The one the poor college student asked for on a Saturday morning around 10:00 a.m., after I’d been out playing at a gig the night before and hadn’t gotten home until about 2:30/3:00 in the morning. Let’s just say the sight of this long-haired, bearded, grumpy and bedecked in only my old burgundy bathrobe musician was unsettling to the poor fellow to say the least. My response to his inquiry was a somewhat gruff “Yah!”, whereupon he smiled weakly, apologized profusely, and beat a hasty retreat away from my door, never to be seen again. Who says interacting with the government can’t be fun? And, effective as well.
  
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ArmedAndReallyPissed
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:57pm
Obama Admin. Trying to Deport German Evangelical Family Seeking Assylum Over Homeschooling

No problem. They can leave and sneak back in from Mexico claiming to be Mexican ILLEGAL Aliens. Then they can stay forever, be given free Medical Aid, Social Security, WIK, food Stamps, Housing Assistance, etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.etc.

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gyro
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:56pm
wait a second
German family // political asylum//
I guess the home of the BMW is a hell to live in ?
send them back

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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:09pm
  Are you kidding?
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:18pm
  Apparently, Germany has changed some since I was last there in the early ’90s.
  But, does Elian Gonzalez come to mind?
  http://frontpagemag.com/2011/humberto-fontova/elian-gonzalez-when-eric-holder-earned-his-spurs/
  
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- gyro
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 3:10pm
  Hi Gonzo
  I know it sounds harsh for the family but a country must use caution or the borders become open to everyone who has a beef with the country they come from ?
  Think of it this way a person from some realy bad place writes stuff against the bad place and knows that if they return they get tortured or worse — theses people if they return to germany what happens ? public school?
  There has to be a line to cross I dont think germany is zimbabwe
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 4:27pm
  Gyro, if you read the story you will find out that social services will take their kids from them. It’s a clear case of religious persecution.
  
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- gyro
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 4:46pm
  I get that
  taking children sucks but there must be a reason that this family has been pushed this far
  some how not wanting your kids in a public school isnt a reason for Assylum or 50 other German Evangelical Familys would be standing in line behind them ?
  i say saen them back have them deal with the problems then invite them to move to usa
  
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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 5:30pm
  …and I thought I was a heartless bastard.
  
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- gyro
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 6:00pm
  Not today thats me !
  :(
  
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moreteaplease
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:54pm
Homeschooling runs counter to the progressive agenda of socialist indoctrination in the public school system. Now if they were coming across the southern border it would probably be a different story.

I see this as Obama enacting vengeance against the parents for not putting their kids through the socialist school system.

“Farris maintains the Germans frown upon home schools because they believe they breed “religious and philosophical minorities” — something he says they would rather do without in their country.”
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Is it any wonder the Obama administration is siding with Germany?

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:02pm
  End the International Baccalaureate program (IB) and Common Core. They are indoctrination, not education.
  
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NOBALONEY
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:53pm
Islamist terrorits are going to get “fair” justice, Illegal immigrants get to stay, but Geman asylum for homeschooling is too radical for ObamaNation. No longer the home of the free, and the brave. It’s whatever the meesiah’s agenda says it is.

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COFemale
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:49pm
Just like the Obama administration to deport those who try to come through the front door with a legal claim rather those who come through our back door and expect handouts. Hell, he already released over a 1000 illegals.

Someone needs to step up and sponsor this family before they get deported because they home school. Obama can’t have free thinking foreigners in his country. Wow is Obama a xenophobe?

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- encinom
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:13pm
  Its an insult to those who truly suffer the brunt of politcal brutality for these misguided fools to seek asylum because they can’t pollute their children’s minds with their religious nonsense.
  
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- RJJinGadsden
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:20pm
  Damn ENCINOM, You absolutely hate that first statement in the 1st Amendment, don’t you?
  
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- Witness1974
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:23pm
  Encinom: It’s uncanny the way we can always count on you to be on the wrong side of every issue.
  
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Caballosinnombre
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:45pm
Our government is quick to deport law-abiding immigrants aren’t they? But when it comes to illegal border crossing, drug running, disease ridden, rapists, lookout, we must protect them.

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- CatB
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:01pm
  Not only protect them but let the very dangerous ones out of prison …. how many so far 2,000 – 3,000 .. and more planned ..
  
  they knew releases took place in Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, New Jersey, New York and Texas.
  
  If you live in any of these states they have put you in danger .. these were CRIMINALS not only “illegal” but have committed crimes.
  
  http://amresolution.com/2013/03/14/feds-rearrest-4-illegals-released-by-administration/
  
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walnutportconservative
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:45pm
NEA must be shut down, or the choice of education, by the parent, will be taken away here too. That is why the dictator will not side with them.

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ilovetheusa1
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:43pm
they’re not Mexicans on food stamps, so they probably don’t vote the right way.

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- CatB
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:50pm
  Exactly .. they are the wrong color … not automatic Obama voters .. this from the regime that brought you Obamacare and the “white people tax” .. on TANNING of 10% … they would not have dared put a tax on rap music, or tacos, etc. But white people are racists — yes that is sarcasm.
  
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- vbell
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:17pm
  I think you hit the nail on the head. They aren’t O voters so ship them back. How extremely hypocritical to release thousands of criminally incarcerated illegal immigrants (from Mexico) BACK INTO THE US yet ship this former legally granted asylum German family back to Germany. How long does it take an American citizen to realize that they made an enormous mistake with this president and we will reap the terrible consequences for years to come? WAKE UP AMERICA
  
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Gonzo
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:43pm
Sorry, too white and Christian to qualify. If only you were the illegitimate children of alcoholic, communist, atheist, Kenyans, we would put you in charge of the whole place

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GoodStuff
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:42pm
The Obama administration should all be in jail.

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- walnutportconservative
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:46pm
  All of them????
  
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- Witness1974
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:01pm
  Nuremburg greatly undermined the “I was only following orders” defense.
  
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mrunner
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:42pm
Proof that this president and his appointees are Godless Marxists hellbent on attacking the very principles this country was founded on. My forefathers came across from England to escape religious persecution. As a Governor of the Colony of Maryland, one of my forefathers authored a religious tolerance act. His great grandson has his name on the Declaration of Independence. They were willing to pledge their lives, fortunes and sacred honor to fight for what is right. So am I.

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tothepoint
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:42pm
Wait a minute – Obama’s own Uncle and Aunt are here illegally, living off the taxpayer, and they get to stay. Illegals from Mexico, South America and other countries live here illegally, sucking off the taxpayers dime, getting free health care, free schooling, free groceries, free cell phone, free everything. This family is here legally, hoping for a better life. What gives Obama and his gang the right to throw them out yet keep people who are here illegally, using up taxpayers’ $?

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Melvin Spittle
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:41pm
Yet Obama’s uncle is given a pass.

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- ThorLoser
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:59pm
  This was my very first thought as well.
  
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Trance
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:39pm
Just goes to show how important the separation of church and state is in the US.

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- The_Jerk
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:43pm
  It’s a question of who owns our children. The state does not. We do. If they do not permit us to educate our children, they own them.
  
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progressiveslayer
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:37pm
“The Obama administration is basically saying there is no right to home school anywhere,” Michael Farris, founder of the Home School Legal Defense Association

This Marxist regimes stance on this issue is pretty consistent,they can’t allow an alternative form of education,especially one that doesn’t involve the state. Creating mind numbed robots requires that the state be involved at every level.

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- Gonzo
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 1:12pm
  Bingo, give Obama a Democrat House in 2014 and we’ll have the same mandatory state education policy as Germany does.
  
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Ironmaan
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:35pm
Our government no longer supports freedom and liberty, and as such our military men and women should exit the military lest they help a tyrannical government further its goals that have nothing to do with freedom and liberty.

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- progressiveslayer
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:54pm
  You are correct and well said,I never thought I’d see the day our country has fallen to a dictator but it has and it’s only going to get much worse. This police state is well established and I know they’re recording every keystroke and reading and storing every email on the internet. They will use it whenever they see fit and it’s all being done without warrants,the republic is dead.
  
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MikeNelson
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:35pm
Quick! Convert to Islam.

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Calm Voice of Reason
Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:35pm
Sounds more like the government is saying the violating rights to home school your children is not sufficient grounds to supersede the proper channels of immigration.

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- Shasta.Red.Banks
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 12:41pm
  it’s sufficient grounds as far as I am concerned. Shout out to Danny.
  
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- Grover_Standpipe
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 3:24pm
  We can’t help all of the people who are fleeing from genuinely oppressive regimes and we’re supposed to give “asylum” to people who leave a free, democratic, and prosperous country just because their government thinks that a child’s right to a proper education is more important than a parent’s right to control their kids’ minds? The hell with that! Go home, weirdos.
  
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- HigherRoad
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 5:04pm
  GROVER–What if the government takes your children because you choose to homeschool? Wouldn’t it be reasonable to seek asylum in a country that protects individual rights–or used to? There is nothing weird about this at all. This is survival at a very basic level. Many are given political asylum here for reasons less than this. This is a political jackboot move by Obama to show America and the rest of the world who’s in charge! Typical behavior for wanna-be dictators.
  
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- Grover_Standpipe
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 9:29pm
  HigherRoad
  I would never choose to homeschool because that would prevent my children from growing up to be smarter than me, which is what every good parent should want. Our country protects the right of stupid people to be bad parents more than most places, but that doesn’t make a country that puts the rights of the kids first a dictatorship.
  
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- HigherRoad
  Posted on March 15, 2013 at 10:03pm
  GROVER–By entrusting your children to public education, you are assuming all of their teachers will also be smarter than you or have stronger social values than you do. When public schools incorporate political indoctrination into the curriculum, this should raise a warning flag for parents. At the very least, parents should have the right to home school or send their child to public school as they see fit. For a government to remove the children from the home if the children are home schooled would be reason enough for me to seek asylum elsewhere. Those restrictions placed on others can also be placed on you!
  
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- Grover_Standpipe
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 12:34am
  HigherRoad
  In entrusting your children to public education, I am not assuming that any of their teachers will be smarter than me or have stronger social values than I do. I will still be taking part in my child’s education. I am merely recognizing that I alone cannot possibly be smarter than me and all of my child’s teachers put together. If public schools incorporate political indoctrination into the curriculum, that certainly should raise a warning flag for parents, but this does not happen as much as you probably think it does. A lot of people homeschool because they do not want their kids to receive any exposure to viewpoints with which they do not agree, and they don’t always differentiate between the presentation of such views in a vacuum and their presentation in the context of a full and open discussion that examines all sides of an issue. I want my kids to agree with me because they decide that what I says makes sense, not because they don’t know any better.
  
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- HigherRoad
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 12:37pm
  GROVER–One rotten egg added to half a dozen fresh eggs does not dilute the “rottenness” of the one. On the other hand, the one rotten egg will definitely spoil the whole batch. My point is that even the introduction of Marxist/Communist, anti-Christian doctrine into the curriculum contaminates the entire educational experience. That may be O.K. with you, but it isn’t for me!
  
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- Grover_Standpipe
  Posted on March 16, 2013 at 4:01pm
  HigherRoad
  They aren’t going to be in school forever. They’re going to be hearing superficially convincing arguments in support of bad ideas for their whole adult life. The sooner they start hearing different views from different people, the better prepared they will be. Trying to isolate them from ideas you don’t agree with isn’t education, it’s brainwashing. Which is more important, that your kids never consider the possibility that some of what you tell them is wrong, or that they are smart? You can’t have both, if you think that you can, then you are dangerously ignorant about how education works, when it does work.
  
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