Tag: Asylum

A Miscarriage of Justice

Obama administration seeking to deport Christian homeschooling family

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The Romeike family / AP

The Obama administration is attempting to deport a German family that came to America seeking asylum from a Nazi-era law that prohibits homeschooling.

Defection Denied

Vice President’s office behind turning away of senior Chinese defector from consulate in China

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Xi Jinping and Joe Biden / AP Images

The office of Vice President Joe Biden overruled State and Justice Department officials in denying the political asylum request of a senior Chinese communist official last February over fears the high-level defection would upset the U.S. visit of China’s vice president, according to U.S. officials.