Fri Sep 29, 2023 – 2:29 pm EDT
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) — U.S. lawmakers are considering legislation that would stop the deportation of a German Christian homeschooling family who moved to Tennessee nearly 15 years ago to protect their children from public school indoctrination.
The legislation could protect the Romeike family from being deported from the U.S. and likely facing serious criminal penalties on their home soil.
As LifeSiteNews previously reported, the family of nine moved from Germany to America in 2008 to raise their children as they saw fit – something they felt would be impossible given Germany’s strict prohibitions against homeschooling involving serious criminal penalties.
READ: German homeschooling family living in US for 15 years may be deported by Biden admin
“We came here in 2008 because we were persecuted with high fines and threatened with jail time and loss of custody of our children,” the father of the family, Uwe Romeike, said in a recent interview. “The police took our children to school and it was just an unbearable situation for us to stay there.”
Though they were granted asylum in Tennessee, the Romeike family underwent a fraught legal battle to remain in
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