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    Action Item: Petition Opposing Deportation of Home Schooling Family

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    #1 · March 25, 2013, 1:17 pm

    Posted by: virginiaknowles <virginiaknowles@...>

    Dear Hope Chest friends,
    I received this from my old friend Darlene, who was one of my first home school mentors when we lived in Maryland in the late 1980's and early 1990's.  I keep thinking of what I would feel if I were in this situation.  If you don't already have a White House petition account, it might take a few minutes to get it set up, but stick with it and it will eventually work.  ~~ Virginia






    Dear Virginia,

       This family has become very dear to us
    since moving to our town, Morristown,
    and we are doing what we can to help them.  We hope and pray the entire
    homeschool community will get behind them as the Lord has put them in the lead of
    the struggle to keep our freedom to homeschool in this country!   Thought you
    could help get this message out.   Love to you and your family!   Darlene

     

    From: Smoky Mountain
    Home Education Association 

    Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2013
    3:22 PM
    Subject: Action Item: Petition
    Opposing Deportation of Home Schooling Family     

      

    Take Action:  Sign
    HSLDA's Petition Opposing Deportation

    From:  THEA
    (Tennessee Home Education Association)

    To: 
    Homeschoolers of Tennessee

    Re:  Home School Family deportation

     

     (Please forward to your homeschool contacts,  support
    groups, co-ops, tutorials, etc. Thanks!)

    Please take a few minutes of your valuable time and SIGN
    the petition (create an account, if necessary) to prevent the
    deportation back to Germany of our fellow Tennessee home educators, Uwe
    & Hanna Romeike and their five children.     

    This precious Christian family fled Germany
    because of the persecution by the government against them for home
    schooling. They took refuge and settled in East
    Tennessee. A Federal Immigration Judge in Memphis
    granted them Political Asylum based on the religious persecution they
    experienced in Germany
    because of home schooling. This was the first time ever that political
    asylum has been granted for persecution due to homeschooling!

    Then, under US Attorney General Eric Holder and the US
    Dept. of Justice, the United States Government Agency for Immigration
    and Customs Enforcement (ICE), filed an appeal for the purpose of
    revoking the their asylum status and it won! Their political asylum
    status has been revoked and our government intends to deport them back to
    Germany!
    Their case

    is

    now under appeal to the US 6th Circuit Court of
    Appeals and will be heard on Tuesday, April 23rd with Dr. Michael
    Farris representing them.


                  Here's
    the link with details of their story and a link to the petition:      

     

    http://www.hslda.org/legal/cases/romeike.asp

      

    Romeike Family

      

     

     

     

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