Homeschooling in the Immigration Debate

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The editorial, “Home school – The Europeans don’t like it,” on the Las Vegas Review-Journal nudges the Romeike family’s asylum into immigration reform territory.

Immigration has long been a wedge issue and the any reform effort is assured to be hotly debated, with rounds and rounds of emotional pleas by those on all sides. And, now homeschooling is being tied to it on the side of this position:

So long as they do it by the book, let’s reiterate: Send us your huddled masses, yearning to breathe free.

Homeschooling and immigration – I sense it is only a winning issue mix for HSLDA.

Read the editorial here.

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