Biden administration seeks to deport German homeschool family

 

Home education has been illegal in Germany for more than a century, while private religious schools, which are often costly, must utilize state-mandated curriculum from the areas in which they are located. Image: Home School Legal Defense Association (The Sentinel).

By Ben Zeisloft - Posted at The Sentinel:

Published September 25, 2023

The Romeikes, an evangelical Christian family, were recently told that their asylum status had been revoked and that the family has four weeks to apply for German passports so they can be deported.

American officials abruptly informed an evangelical Christian family from Germany, who fled their nation one decade ago because they desired to homeschool their children, that their current asylum status has been revoked.

Uwe and Hannelore Romeike obtained “indefinite deferred action” asylum status in 2013 after nationwide pressure toward the Obama administration, thereby permitting them to homeschool their children. The couple were recently told that their status had been revoked and that the family has four weeks to apply for German passports so they can be deported, according to a press release from the Home School Legal Defense Association.

The Romeike family, who reside in east Tennessee, now has two children who are American citizens and two children who have married American citizens. “Deportation to Germany will fracture these families, while exposing the Romeikes to renewed persecution in Germany, where homeschooling is still illegal in almost every case,” the press release observed.

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See also:

• UPDATE: German homeschooling family given 1-year stay on deportation | U.S. News (christianpost.com)