Land of the Free? Homeschooling Family in TN Threatened with Deportation
The Heidi St. John Podcast
Heidi St. John
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🗓️ 29 September 2023
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Congress Can Stop Deportation for Romeikes—But We Need Your Help!https://hslda.org/post/congress-can-stop-deportation-for-romeikes-but-we-need-your-help Fleeing Germany in 2008 because they did not have the freedom to homeschool their five children, they came to America seeking asylum. They have been here since then, contributing to and blessing their community. At their required immigration check-in in September, they were surprisingly told to get German passports to prepare for self-deportation. They have no idea why, and now face the fracture of their family as two of their children are now married to American citizens and one has their first child. To be clear, they have been here legally all along.
Congress has stepped in in the past, and we are asking them now to do the same so this family can enjoy the freedom to homeschool that we all can appreciate. Join me today with Uwe and Hannelore Romeike and their attorney Kevin Boden as we talk about their story and how we can help.
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| 0:00.0 | Many of you have heard recently about the story of Uwe and Hanelaure Remica. |
| 0:05.0 | They are the German immigrant family that fled Germany in 2006 after being persecuted |
| 0:10.6 | and threatened with fines and the permanent removal of their children for homeschooling. |
| 0:15.6 | Since their time in the United States, the United States government has tried multiple |
| 0:19.6 | times to deport them, even though their reason for being here is legitimate and they came |
| 0:25.0 | legally to the United States. A couple of weeks ago the Biden administration again |
| 0:29.5 | issued a deportation citation to the Remica family and they join me today with their attorney |
| 0:35.3 | from HSLDA Kevin Bowdoin. This is an important story that needs to be shared far and wide. |
| 0:40.0 | Stick around, I think you're going to be encouraged. |
| 0:50.1 | Before I jump into the interview this morning, I want to encourage you guys to participate |
| 0:54.8 | with me in a poll that we are conducting over at Spotify. Those of you who are listening to this |
| 1:01.0 | on iTunes or on another platform, if you head over to Spotify, you'll see that they have really |
| 1:05.2 | come up with a fantastic way to let the audience interact and I'm going to ask your opinion |
| 1:10.3 | about what's happening to the Remica family and we want to talk about this so that other people |
| 1:14.7 | that go to Spotify can see that this is an issue that needs to be addressed by the American people. |
| 1:20.5 | And so I hope you guys will join me over there, go to Spotify and just check that out. |
| 1:24.8 | We have been posting polls now for about the last week or so just so we can get audience feedback |
| 1:30.8 | and sort of gauge where you guys are at. So that's a great way for you guys to interact with this |
| 1:35.2 | over at Spotify. I want to welcome Uwe and Hanela Remica to the show. Thank you guys for |
| 1:40.4 | being here today. I really appreciate it. Thank you so much for having us. So you came to the |
| 1:44.9 | United States 10 wet over 15 years ago now and I want to just give people a little bit of feed |
| 1:52.0 | but you know people haven't heard from you on my show before. Tell us a little bit about |
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