That kind of hypothetical does little to advance logical thinking about any issue, and in a case like this makes no sense at all. Any immigrant in the country can apply for asylum. Have you seen millions of Mexicans claiming, for instance, to be Cubans? No, because the idea is ridiculous.
A more interesting question is why did the federal government choose to appeal the immigration judge's order allowing the Christian homeschooling family to stay? Why bother, considering they rarely appeal any immigration judge's order.
The real question is why is our government putting the full force of its litigation ability against one family of Christian homeschoolers? Why waste a huge amount of money, probably in excess of a million dollars, to deny asylum to one Christian family? The only rationale that makes sense is an anti-Christian bias and/or a desire to establish that government has a right to control every aspect of the education of children.
Both are the exact opposite of what our government should be thinking and doing, and raise far more serious concerns than whether or not some future immigrants will try to claim that they are being prevented from homeschooling in their country of origin, and then litigate the issue for years to establish their claim.
As I understand it, teachers unions are vehemently opposed to homeschooling, for obvious reasons. I think this seemingly irrational litigation may well be payback by the Obama administration to one of their hardcore constituencies.
But if the Supreme Court ruled it was a legitimate reason for asylum, then litigation by other individuals would not be necessary. You have to know when SCOTUS decides to take a case it goes beyond the individual case being heard.
The Justice Dept. is making an example of this family for U.S., Christian, home-schooling families to take note of. As stated prior the family is the wrong religion, race, have too many children and are not freeloaders—just the type the U.S. gov’t no longer finds beneficial to the nation and Obamadumba’s causes.