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From: mangoe@umcp-cs.UUCP (Charley Wingate)
Newsgroups: net.kids,net.legal,net.politics
Subject: ACLU and Parent's Rights
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Date: Wed, 25-Sep-85 08:12:28 EDT
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Posted: Wed Sep 25 08:12:28 1985
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In article <11821@rochester.UUCP> ray@rochester.UUCP (Ray Frank) writes:

>>> When that 15 yr. old Russian boy wanted to stay in America and not leave
>>> the country with his parents several years ago, the ACLU said he must
>>> go back.

>> I don't agree that the boy should've been forced to go back to Russia.  
>> (What's the whole story of the ACLU's involvement in this case, anyway?)  

>I don't know anything more than that the ACLU said it was unconstitutional
>for the immigration department to give permission to the boy to stay here
>against his parent's wishes.

If I remember correctly, the boy in question turned 18 over the summer,
throwing a tremendous monkey wrench into the case.


Charley Wingate