“By all accounts, the Romeikes are model citizens,” the letter states. “Since their arrival to the United States, the members of the Romeike family have successfully assimilated into their local community and the fabric of American life. Uwe, the father, works at a Christian university. The youngest two children were born and raised here. The older Romeike children have even gotten married and have had their own children.”
The representatives said the Romeike family “has lived peacefully and in our country for over a decade” and that “to force this refugee family to suddenly return to Germany, with a government that once forcibly removed their children from their home simply for observing their deeply-held religious beliefs, is immoral and indefensible.”
The politicians noted that both Garland and Mayorkas possess the power to grant asylum to those seeking it in the United States.
“We … respectfully ask that you use this power given to you by Congress to grant the Romeike family asylum,” they wrote.
The current status of the Romeike family in the U.S. is unknown. Their report date for their possibly final meeting with immigration officials is sometime this month.
Kevin Boden, an attorney with the Home School Legal Defense Association, which has provided the Romeikes with legal help over the course of their time in the U.S., told CNA last month that the family “[didn’t] know if they’re going to be forced to leave … [or] if they’re going to be taken into custody” at this month’s meeting.
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