Not all refugees are welcome here in the United States. If, with the aid of coyotes and the cartel, you surge across the border, the Biden Junta will welcome you with a promise to look at your case some day years from now, if they can find you. Meanwhile, they will grace the immigrants with a plethora of social services. On the other hand, if you are a Christian homeschooling family, you will be sneered at and threatened with deportation even though you and your family pay your own way. Ladies and Gentlemen, meet the Romeikes.

Uwe and Hannelore Romeike have lived comfortably for the last 15 years in Jefferson City, Tennessee, about 40 miles Northeast of where I live. Uwe works doing everything involved with the piano at Carson-Newman University, a private Southern Baptist educational facility. The family applied for asylum in the United States when the fines and persecution for homeschooling their children too much. The Sixth Circuit Court turned down their appeal:

The Romeikes claim they are being persecuted because they want to raise their children in accordance with their Christian beliefs.
The U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals in May rejected that claim. The court found that U.S. law does not grant asylum to every victim of unfair treatment.
The couple filed an appeal on Thursday. They argue that Germany’s law violates international human rights standards because it does not allow parents to control their children’s education.

I repeat from the article: THE COURT FOUND THAT U.S. LAW DOES NOT GRANT ASYLUM TO EVERY VICTIM OF UNFAIR TREATMENT. So, if the Romeikes had just walked across the border changes are the Biden Junta would not even have ever looked for them. They have three problems now: 1. They came here legally. They are Germans. 3. They are Christians. Persecution of Christians is unprecedented during the last two and a half years of Biden. From the Catholic News Agency in 2022:

In 2022 the Biden Justice Department prosecuted a record 26 pro-life advocates under the FACE Act. Meanwhile, last year saw nearly 100 attacks against pregnancy resource centers and churches that went largely unpunished.
Perhaps the most controversial use of the FACE Act was the arrest of Catholic father and pro-life activist Mark Houck. The Pennsylvania resident was accused of pushing a Planned Parenthood volunteer in defense of his son about a year before his arrest. In September 2022 Houck was taken into custody by armed FBI agents while he was at home with his wife and children.
Houck was acquitted of all charges on Monday. Still, Republican leaders such as Rep. Chip Roy of Texas decried the FBI’s use of the FACE Act as a “brazen exercise in intimidation” that “never should have happened.”

Joe Biden is allegedly a Catholic but that doesn’t stop him or his Administration from persecuting people of faith. While their cases wended its way through court and immigration hearings, the Romeikes were required to check in with Immigration once a year which they have done faithfully. Recently, things have changed:

Uwe and Hannelore Romeike face a devastating predicament as their family faces deportation after 15 years of making a home for themselves in East Tennessee.
“They did not tell us anything. We don’t really know why [this is happening]. We wonder ourselves because we can’t understand,” Uwe Romeike told ‘Fox & Friends Weekend’ on Sunday.
Originally from Germany, the Romeike family fled to the U.S. after being fined for homeschooling their children in their mother country. Five years later, their asylum claim was denied, with authorities claiming they weren’t persecuted.

“The goal in Germany is for an open, pluralistic society,” the Justice Department wrote in a legal brief at the time. “Teaching tolerance to children of all backgrounds helps to develop the ability to interact as a fully functioning citizen in Germany.”
Their stay was indefinite, however, until now.
“[Homeschooling] is illegal [in Germany],” Hannelore Romeike explained. If they are sent back, they will face the same persecution as before.
Initially, an immigration judge found the Romeike family’s asylum claim appropriate.

“They found that the Romeike family did have a well-founded fear of persecution based on their participation in a particular social category, that being homeschoolers,” Kevin Boden, an attorney representing the family, said.
“The Obama administration appealed that to the Board of Immigration Appeals. That appeal court agreed with them, as did the Sixth Circuit, and the Supreme Court denied it…. We think this is, in fact, an asylum case. We do think they have a well-founded fear as we testified…
“I can tell you today, I talked to families today that have fear in Germany and the fight there, the persecution there, is very real today as it was 15 years ago,” Boden continued.

Listen to Uwe Romeike talk and play the piano and you can hear his heart:

Two of the Romeike children were born here. Two of the older children are married to United States citizens. They work. They observe laws. They didn’t break the law as their first act. We want more people like the Romeikes. And my Syrian Christian neighbors. He is a gastroenterologist and she is a pediatrician. We need more legal immigrants like all of them. We need to secure the border and return the leeches that are in tents and the Roosevelt Hotel.

The Home School Legal Defense Association has the Romeike story and a petition. Sign it if you can.

“indefinite deferred action status”

Then, in September 2023, the Romeikes were told during a routine check-in that their deferred status had been revoked. The family was given four weeks to apply for German passports, so they could be deported to Germanyhttps://t.co/rLq4oOUnbC

— SkylerKat (@RealSkylerKat) September 25, 2023

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