Posted on 09/24/2023 12:38:08 PM PDT by Twotone
Purcellville, VA, Sept. 19, 2023 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Purcellville, VA—Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA), the largest homeschool advocacy group in the United States, continues to defend Uwe and Hannelore Romeike and their seven children as they seek the freedom to homeschool their children in the United States—a freedom that is severely curtailed in their native land of Germany.
On Sept. 6, 2023, the Romeikes were told during a routine check-in at their local Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Office that they had four weeks to secure passports and return to Germany. The news came without warning, and with no apparent cause or explanation.
“The Romeike family should be able to stay in the United States and home educate their children,” said HSLDA president Jim Mason. “America is a land of freedom and opportunity, and there are few freedoms or opportunities more important than the ability of parents to safely direct the education of their own children, without fear of punishment or persecution.”
The Romeike family decided in 2006 to home educate their children in Germany based on two core beliefs: a deep conviction that they were responsible to God for their children’s education, and a growing concern that the content of the German public school’s curriculum—particularly anti-Christian and sexual elements—threatened to harm their children. After enduring years of harassment, fines that exceeded their family income, and the forced removal of their children from their home, the family fled Germany.
In August of 2008, HSLDA assisted the Romeikes in securing visas to enter the United States, where they applied for asylum. The Department of Homeland Security granted the Romeikes asylum, but immigration officials overturned the decision. After five years of legal battles, the Obama administration granted the Romeikes indefinite deferred action status in 2013.
Over the last 10 years, the Romeikes have had to regularly report to their local ICE office in Tennessee, but have otherwise been allowed to live, work, and homeschool their children in peace. We are stunned to hear that the Romeikes have been ordered to return to Germany, and are actively working to secure their continued, lawful future here in the United States.
You can sign a petition in support of the Romeike family here: hslda.org/HelptheRomeikes2023 See our website for more details: hslda.org/romeike
Couldn’t Trump have given them permanent asylum? He freed drug dealers and rappers from jail.
As if Trump was running the government...
In some ways, the Obama Admin. was much more American based and some would even say more ‘conservative’ than the Biden Admin is right now. Maybe Obama’s people did not think they could ever go full on Socialist/Progressive and be allowed to remain in the White House. ..If they only knew back then, just how much Socialism a majority of American voters would be willing to tolerate.
Hmmm, this prank smells a lot like a Biden/Ho/Garland turd.
Oh, forgot, they smell even worse than their turds.
BS
They don’t get it.they have to walk across the Mexican border. Then no problemo.
Half the middle east, Africa, and all of South and Central America floods in. Ukrainians and Afhgans are running back and forth like ending scene of the Three Amigos. Conex boxed full of pregnant Chinese woman arrive daily.
But god forbid that a German homeschooling family gets asylum.
Trump had control of what he could see and little else. I doubt if he was even made aware of these people. A nd if he was he was assured that they were safe here in America and he had nothing to worry about.
Guaranteed.
Maybe the Romeikes should go to Mexico and sneak back in over the border, and then they’ll get the red carpet treatment.
I’ve entertained the thought of doing that myself.
/almost sarc
But a bunch of parasites from third world countries are welcomed by Biden as "refugees". The hell they are. This family is a REAL refugee family, victims of persecution from a leftist government.
I think they picked tge wrong time to seek asylum in America. We’re nearly out of freedom here.
Simple was to stay. Uwe joins MS13.
Might be nice to get that free phone and a few thousand bucks...
We supported the HSLDA for well over a decade, even though our right to home school was not threatened in Texas.
Looks like we need to continue to support them.
This is simply persecution of Christians by the government.
My guess is that Islamo-Marxists in the State Dept have been scouring records to see who they could deport that are Christians.
The kids should go to Cali and declare they are trans. See what happens then.
He could have.. he could have locked up Hillary, told fauci he was not the prez and stood behind 2A, but instead he gave us DACA amnesty, endless tyranny with his CARES act with mail in ballots.
He supports groomer Disney and it’s really sure a man can’t become a woman.
What else can he do to demonstrate he is anti constitutional.
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