Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Wednesday's Word: German Homeschooling Family Once Again Faces Deportation

 

"And if a stranger dwells temporarily with you in your land,
you shall not suppress and mistreat him.  But the stranger who 
 dwells with you shall be to you as one born among you; and you shall
love him as yourself, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt."
(Leviticus 19:33-34)


The Romeike Family
Photograph courtesy/WBIR.com/Video screenshot



After a massive two week manhunt in Pennsylvania,  an escaped convicted murderer
who "crab-walked" his way up a wall and escaped from a Chester County prison,
was finally re-captured and re-incarcerated, this time at the maximum security
SCI Phoenix state prison in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.

In 2017, Danel Calvacante fled his native Brazil after being labeled
 as the chief suspect in the murder of  Valter Junior Moreira dos Reis.
According to various media reports,  Calvacante gunned down his 
victim in a remote area in the northern Brazilian state of Tocantins.  

A warrant was issued for his arrest, however, in January 2018, the fugitive
managed to board a plane-using his own passport- and travel from
Brazil to Florida via Puerto Rico, and entered the United States illegally.

In 2021, Calvacante murdered his ex-girlfriend, Deborah Brandao by
 stabbing her to death inside her Schuylkill Township, Pennsylvania 
home, a killing witnessed by her two children.  

He was recently tried and and convicted of this heinous crime.
  
Calvacante is considered a violent criminal.  

So, why was he being held in a minimum security county jail
 which he apparently had little trouble breaking out of?

While I am glad to know that this convicted murderer is back
 behind bars where he belongs, how many others like him are 
on the run from the law, or, are being released from prisons
in South America and other places, and  being permitted to
 cross our southern borders, unchecked, on a regular basis,
due to the deliberate laxity of the Biden Administration?

Illegals are not only promised free welfare, free medical care,
education, driver's licenses, and other perks by the government,
but are being flown into communities all over the nation.

Meanwhile, a Christian family living in Tennessee, who were given asylum
  from Germany fifteen years ago, are now being threatened with deportation
by the Biden Administration.   In 2010, the nine member Romeike family sought
refuge in America due to their native country's strict rules against homeschooling,
laws which stretch back to the era of Nazi Germany.

While living in Bissingen, a district of Ludwigsburg, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Uwe and Hammelore Romeike had been subjected to criminal prosecution for
simply wanting to homeschool their children outside the state-approved system.
They faced exorbitant fines, the removal of their children from their home,
and imprisonment if they stayed in Germany. 

  The family was eventually granted asylum in the United States
by a Memphis judge,
 despite the efforts of then President Barack Obama
 and Attorney General Eric Holder 
to have them deported back to Germany. 
 They have been living in Tennessee for almost a decade and two more children
 have been born to the family while two others have married American citizens.

  Now Uwe Romeike recently told NBC affiliate WBIR-TV that two weeks ago,
 an immigration agent instructed him to return to his office with his family
in four weeks with German passports, to deport themselves.  

  Why is the Romeike family being singled out for deportation
 by our government when thousands of unchecked illegals,
some with criminal backgrounds like Danel Calvacante,
are freely traversing across our southern borders every single day?

  The family has no place to live in Germany and if they are forced
 to return there may once again face criminal charges, as the penalties against
  homeschooling have greatly increased in that nation over the last ten years.

A petition urging the Biden administration to allow the Romeike family
to stay in the United States was recently started by the Homeschool
Legal Defense Association.  I would like everyone reading this
post to please consider signing this petition in
support of the Romeike family.

https://go.hslda.org/HelptheRomeikes2023

Please keep them in your prayers.




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