@@ Romeike Fundie Deportation

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@@ At the intersection of Christian Conservatism, large semi-celebrity Fundie families, immigration policy and white nationalism / privilege: The Romeike family was allowed to stay in the US for 10+ years after seeking asylum because Germany wouldn’t let them homeschool their kids. Now they are being asked to self-deport.

www.wbir.com/amp/article/news/local/morristown-family-faces-deportation-homeschooling/51-2d3dd498-b8b0-4b4e-86af-e8c33dae0dbb

The tea 🍵 blowing up on social media and Reddit: 2 of their kids are 18+ now and they had 2 more kids in the US who are citizens. One of their daughters married a Bates son last year. He is rumored to have been at the January 6th insurrection and the Bates family is friends with the Duggar family. The newlyweds already had their first baby and the dad and baby are US citizens. Supposedly the marriage is what triggered ICE to reconsider their case (or cases because the married daughter will be considered separately now).

Guess what Conservatives? Play stupid games, win stupid prizes! Experience how your shitty immigration policies tear apart families.

[sent]

That's a lot of white, blonde people in the photos. Why do I have this hopeless feeling that justice won't be served here.

Wouldn't the US Citizen husband have applied for a green card for the wife the moment they got married? This is the path one of my former employees took who was a Dreamer and constantly worried about her future until she got that green card through marriage. This was pre-COVID, I think it took her between 1 - 2 years.

[ellipses84]

I’m not sure on details. I think it has to do with an immigration backlog, them not starting the correct paperwork process and the original families unclear status. The married daughter may be able to go back to Germany (w/husband and kid), and then start the process. I’m a little baffled the whole family was allowed to stay as long as they were and I’m not sure how much the prolonged court cases/ appeals and covid delays had to do with it. Originally 200k fundies signed a petition and there was a lot of conservative political pressure around them being allowed to stay.

My BFF married an Irish guy and it was a many years long invasive process to get him legal status in the US. She moved to Ireland to live with him for a couple years to prove it was a real relationship, then came back to the US on a 90-day fiance visa to get married and he was not allowed to work here for the first year of their marriage (even though his company had offices in both locations and they met when he was in the US for work training).

[StrawberryBlondie]

Sept 20, 2023 21:59:37 GMT -5 sent said:

That's a lot of white, blonde people in the photos. Why do I have this hopeless feeling that justice won't be served here.

Wouldn't the US Citizen husband have applied for a green card for the wife the moment they got married? This is the path one of my former employees took who was a Dreamer and constantly worried about her future until she got that green card through marriage. This was pre-COVID, I think it took her between 1 - 2 years.

I read that there was already a deportation order in place for her when they married, so getting a green card wasn't legally possible.

On IG, withoutacrystalball has been posting about this a lot lately. I think it's super interesting.

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Sept 21, 2023 9:26:19 GMT -5 StrawberryBlondie said:

Sept 20, 2023 21:59:37 GMT -5 sent said:

That's a lot of white, blonde people in the photos. Why do I have this hopeless feeling that justice won't be served here.

Wouldn't the US Citizen husband have applied for a green card for the wife the moment they got married? This is the path one of my former employees took who was a Dreamer and constantly worried about her future until she got that green card through marriage. This was pre-COVID, I think it took her between 1 - 2 years.

I read that there was already a deportation order in place for her when they married, so getting a green card wasn't legally possible.

On IG, withoutacrystalball has been posting about this a lot lately. I think it's super interesting.

Oh wow, that makes sense then.

Her baby was born to an undocumented mother. Lemme guess, the circles they hang with are big on birthright stuff. 

I'm sure also "it's not the same" according to them.

Thanks for posting this case, I would've not heard about it otherwise. 

[livinitup]

“But … but … but … different “

Although, these days the quiet part might get shouted out loud “But they are white, from a ‘good’ country, and would vote for the right people”.

[somersault72]

I found that article infuriating. Something tells me they don't know the first thing about actual persecution. People risk their lives on the daily to bring their families here (and then constantly risk deportation and a host of other issues) trying to escape God knows what, and they came here because they didn't want to pay a fine to homeschool their kids. In fucking Germany. See ya, bye!

[mrshandy]

Working in immigration, I feel like this story is pretty common. People come here and file for Asylum and build lives while they are waiting for the process to play out. Then once they are finally denied, they are processed for deportation, but that takes forever as well. Of course there is an appeal process as well. When their chances finally run out, they enter deportation proceedings. However, ICE doesn't have the manpower or desire to break down the door of everyone that is in deportation proceedings. Those people have many ties to the US and have birthright children. It does really suck for them when their time finally runs out. Many of them 'disappear' during the Asylum process and become part of the undocumented people that live and work in the United States.

The only thing that is different here and the only reason we are hearing about it is these people are white and fundies.

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Sept 21, 2023 12:15:22 GMT -5 mrshandy said:

The only thing that is different here and the only reason we are hearing about it is these people are white and fundies.

So they're using white privilege to get into the media and drum up sympathy for their case.

Sigh.