Hannelore Romeike

Hannelore Romeike: Many U.S. home-school families and evangelical Christians have taken up the cause of Uwe and Hannelore Romeike, who faced fines and the threat of losing custody of their children because they refused to comply with Germany's compulsory school attendance law, according to Times Colonist. On Tuesday, a three-member panel of U.S. 6th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Romeikes do not meet the criteria for asylum and NASHVILLE, Tenn. - A U.S. appeals court has denied asylum to a Christian family who fled Germany so they could home-school their children, ruling that immigration laws do not grant a safe haven to people everywhere who face restrictions that would be prohibited under the Constitution. In 2008, the Romeikes moved from Bissingen an der Teck in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg to the U.S. and applied for asylum. That request was initially granted by an immigration judge in 2010. But the Board of Immigration Appeals overturned that ruling, and the Romeikes appealed. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.