Posted on 01/13/2014 6:45:02 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Ronald Reagan electrified the world when he demanded that the Berlin Wall be torn down. Barack Obama is helping to build a new one, even as the German government begins rounding up members of a despised religious minority.
The Romeike family was granted asylum in the United States because the German government was intent on wresting away the children and putting the parents in cages for the crime of homeschooling their children, which is verboten in Germany, a legacy of the countrys totalitarian past. The Obama administration, which in other notable areas of immigration law has enacted a policy of discretion regarding deportations, took the Romeike family to court to have its asylum protections revoked, and succeeded in doing so. The family has appealed to the Supreme Court, which has ordered the Obama administration to respond to the Romeikes petition, but the administration has so far refused to do so.
As the Romeikes story unfolds, another German family is being held in the country against their will, also for the crime of homeschooling their children or intending to do so, at least. The Wunderlich family had their children kidnapped by the German government the agents of which came crashing through their door with battering rams as retaliation for their homeschooling.
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