by James Fulford, The Unz Review:
We reported extensively on the German home-schooling Romeike family (above) in 2013, when the Obama Administration weirdly resisted their asylum request:
- Obama Frees Foreign Criminals but Seeks to Deport German Homeschoolers, by Brenda Walker March 19, 2013
- Memo From Middle America | Eric Holder’s DOJ Finds Some Foreigners It Wants To Deport—White Evangelical German Homeschoolers, by Allan Wall, March 21, 2013
- These GENUINE Asylees Merit Our Support: Sign The White House Petition!, by Paul Nachman, April 9, 2013
- Defining America Down—Jose Antonio Vargas (Yech!) And What’s At Stake In The Latest Amnesty/ Immigration Surge War, by James Kirkpatrick, April 16, 2013
- German Homeschoolers Lose Asylum Case in Court, by Brenda Walker, May 15, 2013
- Memo From Middle America | More On The Romeike Case—What’s Wrong With Wanting White Immigrants?, by Allan Wall, May 28, 2013
- Memo From Middle America | New Evidence Of What Romeike Homeschoolers Face In Germany—But Obama Still Prefers Fraudulent Mexican Asylees , by Allan Wall, October 6, 2013
- DHS Saves German Homeschool Family from Deportation, by Brenda Walker, March 5, 2014
Although the Obama Administration prevailed in court, it for some reason did not in the end deport the Romeikes—see Memo From Middle America | The Homeschooling Romeikes Allowed To Stay—To Bolster Administrative Amnesty, by Allan Wall, April 8, 2014.But now the Biden Administration is trying to do it again:Evangelical Christian family begs Biden administration to stop their deportation back to Germany where it’s illegal to homeschool their kids – while MILLIONS pour across open US border, by Emma James, Daily Mail, September 25, 2023.
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Background: 20th century Germany, having gone through the First and Second World Wars and being ruled by the Nazis, reacted by passing laws against various kinds of Wrongthinking, and by increasing German Federal control of education.
One of the ways the German government controls Wrongthinking: banning homeschooling.
Wikipedia says
Homeschooling is – between Schulpflicht (compulsory schooling) beginning with elementary school to 18 years – illegal in Germany. The illegality has to do with the prioritization of children’s rights over the rights of parents: children have the right to the company of other children and adults who are not their parents. For similar reasons, parents cannot opt their children out of sexual education classes because the state considers a child’s right to information to be more important than a parent’s desire to withhold it.[21]
I have no idea what constitutes sex education in modern day Germany, and I’m not sure I want to, but I’m not reassured by stories like this : It’s not all anal sex’: the German schools exploring love, equality and LGBT issues, by Abby Young-Powell, Guardian, November 23, 2016.
Germany started modern sex education in 1969, and made it mandatory in all schools in 2002.
There are lots of public health types who think this is a Good Thing:
Sexuality education is mandatory for all school types in Germany [24]. By attending school, all young people in Germany thus have access to fact-based health information in the field of sexuality and contraception. Furthermore, for Islamic girls and boys, and for girls and boys under strict religious influence and/or with low obtained or aspired levels of education, the school as the place for sexuality education provides important compensation for the fact that their parents are available more rarely as contact persons for sexual matters.
Sexuality education for young people in Germany, J Health Monit. Journal of Health Monitoring, July 2022.
In fact, religious parents do teach their children about sex, and right and wrong, but their ideas of “wrong” may include things the State doesn’t want to call wrong. This brings us to the Romeike family, below.
Image courtesy Home School Legal Defense Association.
Uwe and Hannelore Romeike fled Germany’s anti-homeschooling laws in 2008, and claimed asylum in Tennessee. They did not come either illegally or “undocumented”, but with regular passports on a tourist visa and applied for asylum while, as the law requires, they were “physically present” in the United States.
Of course, as absolutely everyone knows, the point is that the Romeikes are white Christians, and therefore they are (a) hated and (b) disbelieved when they say they’re persecuted. As VDARE.com’s Allan Wall wrote in 2013, in More On The Romeike Case—What’s Wrong With Wanting White Immigrants?, Slate’s Sally Kohn [Twitter | Email her] was attacking Christian supporters of the Romeikes in an article titled Glenn Beck’s Favorite Immigrants [April 10, 2013] subtitled “Conservatives rally around a controversial family facing deportation. Take one guess why.”
Kohn started:
Did you know that Glenn Beck has pledged $50,000 to the legal fund of an immigrant family facing deportation from the United States? As of April 9, a petition to the White House to grant the family permanent asylum, organized by Christian conservative groups, topped 100,000 signatories, the threshold to trigger a response from the administration.
Confused? I can explain. The Romeike family aren’t just any immigrants. They are evangelical Christians from Germany. And, oh yeah, they’re white.
Kohn didn’t seem to understand the difference between “applying for asylum” which the Romeikes did, and “visa overstayers,” which is what millions of illegals have done. Also, she seemed to think that the fact that Germans can visit on tourist visas (owing to a visa waiver) is white privilege—unlike “people from Mexico (or China or India or the Philippines)” which are non-white countries filled with potential economic migrants who want to immigrate illegally to the US.
