{"id":4897,"date":"2010-02-01T11:19:18","date_gmt":"2010-02-01T17:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=4897"},"modified":"2020-09-12T17:15:17","modified_gmt":"2020-09-12T22:15:17","slug":"asylum-granted-to-german-homeschoolers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/?p=4897","title":{"rendered":"Asylum granted to German homeschoolers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>The Bulletin<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"margin-left: 6px; margin-right: 6px;\" src=\"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/hsg\/blogart\/homeschool\/romeike-fam.jpg\" alt=\"romeike family\" width=\"175\" height=\"120\" \/><br \/>\n<a href=\"ttp:\/\/thebulletin.us\/articles\/2010\/01\/31\/news\/nation\/doc4b664645333c4503223024.txt\">US\u2008Judge Grants Asylum To German Homeschoolers<\/a><br \/>\nSunday, January 31, 2010<br \/>\nPurcellville, Va. \u2014 On Tuesday, in a first of its kind case, a federal immigration judge in Memphis, Tennessee granted political asylum to the Romeike family, who fled Germany in 2008 to escape persecution from the German government for the \u201ccrime\u201d of homeschooling.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Burman said in his decision that, \u201cThe rights being violated here are basic human rights that no country has a right to violate.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Judge Burman also expressed concern that while Germany is a democratic country and an ally, its <strong>policy of persecuting homeschoolers is \u201crepellent to everything we believe as Americans.\u201d<\/strong> &#8212; <a href=\"ttp:\/\/thebulletin.us\/articles\/2010\/01\/31\/news\/nation\/doc4b664645333c4503223024.txt\">keep reading<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>More on the Romeike family from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hslda.org\/hs\/international\/Germany\/200811170.asp\">HSLDA<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Bulletin: US\u2008Judge Grants Asylum To German Homeschoolers Sunday, January 31, 2010 Purcellville, Va. \u2014 On Tuesday, in a first of its kind case, a federal immigration&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[66],"class_list":["post-4897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-homeschooling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thankevann.com\/homeschoolgoodies\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}