of
a German homeschooling family represents a needed refresher course about the
true origins of our fundamental rights. Uwe
and Hannelore Romeike, along with their seven children, were on track to be
deported from the United States. What was their high crime and misdemeanor?
Drug trafficking? Gun running? Cybercrime?
No—it
was homeschooling.
Homeschooling
has been illegal in Germany for nearly a century, but the Romeikes opted to
school their children at home for educational and religious reasons. Faced with
an imminent fear of losing custody of their children, in addition to jail
time and fines, Uwe and Hannelore Romeike fled to Tennessee in 2008
with their children and sought legal asylum, which they were granted in 2010 by U.S. Immigration
Judge Lawrence Burman.
That
should have ended the matter, but apparently granting a homeschooling family
asylum in the United States constitutes a threat of the highest order, at least
according to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs
Enforcement (ICE), which challenged the Romeikes’ asylum ruling……..Apparently,
ICE believes when homeschoolers are detected we should dial our terror-alert color
wheel all the way up to red—and head straight for the Board of
Immigration Appeals, which revoked the Romeikes’ asylum in 2012 on the basis
that having your children taken away by the state for educating them at home isn’t a serious threat…….To Read More…..
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