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Why did they go to the US? As EU citizens they could have moved to a country that does allow home schooling quite easily. I'm in the UK and home schooling is legal here. I guess that the immigration judge didn't understand that as Germans the Romeikes have freedom of movement in the EU and so could easily have avoided persecution.

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There are relatively few people the US - and other countries - grant political asylum who could only relocate to the country in question.

This is a good thing; otherwise each country can simply say, "Denied, as some other country will take you."

It seems the Judge has an agenda of his own.

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