Court denies US asylum to German home-schoolers

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8. What they're after could also protect gun nuts and other fringe beliefs

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Note that the court ruled that "U.S. immigration laws do not grant a safe haven to people everywhere who face restrictions that would be prohibited under the Constitution." It's all about the slippery slope.

I strongly suspect that the right is going to jump all over this -- activist judges, violation of freedom of religion, persecution of Christians for their beliefs. We've seen the whole thing before. And the only way to counter that is to get out ahead of it and make the point that this is about the specific right of asylum, which requires that people face a risk of torture or death or something equally dire if they were sent back to their home country.

Maybe even suggest to your wingnut friends on Facebook that if this request was upheld, the US could be flooded by thousands of Muslims living in countries like France that are trying to restrict their wearing the burka. That might have some traction with them.