From LegalInsurrection.com:
US Sup Ct refuses to hear Romeike homeschooling case
by William A. Jacobson
Family faces deportation to Germany, where they risk fines, imprisonment and loss of children for homeschooling.
In an Orders list just released, the US Supreme Court has refused to grant certiorari to the petition filed by the Romeike family seeking asylum because of persecution of homeschoolers in Germany.
[BZ notes: see the US 6th Circuit Court ruling here, of Uwe Andreas Josef Romeike, et al, vs Eric Holder.]
The result is that the family faces deportation back to Germany, where they will risk fines, imprisonment, and loss of their children if they continue homeschooling.
Background on the case is set forth in these prior posts:
- DOJ seeks deportation of family persecuted in Germany for homeschooling
- More on the Romeike homeschooling deportation case
But here’s the unspoken part of the equation: the Romeike’s are Christian and religious, and they will be deported.
More on the case and the situation:
The Romeike’s have been here since 2008, seeking political asylum. They fled, essentially, Deutsch persecution for daring to homeschool their children. Because of their insistence upon homeschooling and their refusal to turn their children over to the government, they faced fines, custody and — literally — the loss of their children
From FoxNews.com:
They wanted to live in a country where they could raise their children in accordance with their Christian beliefs.
The Romeikes were initially given asylum, but the Obama administration objected – claiming that German laws that outlaw homeschooling do not constitute persecution.
Really? Imagine that.
On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear the Romeike’s appeal – paving the way for the Christian family of eight to be deported.
Had the family stayed in Germany, where homeschooling is illegal, they would have faced the prospect of losing their children. Like the Pilgrims, they fled their homeland yearning for a place where they could be free.
Perhaps it’s time for this:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.
And those who seek freedom from an establishment of a religion in their own country, are they now persona non gratis? When we have, literally, millions of persons who do not respect our fundamental border rights in the slightest?
The US will let Yemenis and Syrians into the country who default the United States by stealing SSI and Social Security benefits for themselves and for the dead and for children who are no longer in the nation, but the US won’t allow a mere eight more people into the country who seek actual and true religious freedom. Is it because the Romeike family is Caucasoid? Is it because they procreate and have a large family? Is it because they are religious? What is it?
Is this what we’ve become? The complete antithesis of our founding?
BZ
