The Biden Administration Finally Finds An Immigrant Family It Wants To Deport: Homeschoolers
Christian Homeschooling Immigrants from Germany Have to Go
THIRD WORLD YES, FIRST WORLD NO
PUBLIUS SPECIAL GUEST: Robert Bortins, is the CEO of Classical Conversations, which supports classical, Christian homeschoolers in all fifty states and in thirty foreign countries.
Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) sent a scathing letter to Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas Wednesday, asking the Biden administration to reverse course on its pending deportation of a German homeschool family that has lived in the U.S. for 15 years.
The Romeike family was caught off guard earlier this month when they were ordered to meet with an immigration agent and were told to prepare to self-deport. Uwe Romeike told The Daily Wire in an interview on Wednesday that the orders “came as a surprise,” but said that his family is “trust[ing] God to make a way for us to stay here.”
Blackburn blasted the Biden administration for applying “two standards of justice” in a letter to Mayorkas shared with The Daily Wire. Blackburn pointed to how the Biden administration has targeted the Romeike family while illegal immigrants flood across the southern border at record levels.
“I write today to express my disappointment with this administration’s misplaced priorities regarding the enforcement of our laws, as well as your blatant application of two standards of justice,” Blackburn wrote. “As millions of illegal immigrants flood across our southern border and disappear into our country, your immigration authorities have chosen to punish a family who has built their lives in Tennessee within the legal parameters of our immigration system.”
ABOUT CC: Classical Conversations is a proven Christian homeschool program created by parents for parents. We do this through a Christ-centered and family-friendly approach to homeschooling that makes everything biblical and hospitable, focused on three simple key areas: Classical, Christian and Community
BIO: Chief Executive Officer of Classical Conversations, Inc. is a job that Robert Bortins was born to…literally. Dissatisfied with the education options she found as a new mom, Leigh Bortins decided first to homeschool her four sons, and then decided to develop her own curriculum, with Robert, her oldest son, as her first pupil.
Then, in 1997 Leigh began teaching a once-a-week, classical-model rhetoric program in the basement of her home with Robert and 10 of his friends. Classical Conversations’ Challenge I program was born, and a service of home-centered educational options for parents began. From kindergarten through high school, Leigh home-educated Robert and his three younger brothers.
Fast forward a few years, and Robert earned a B.S. degree in Industrial Engineering from Clemson University in 2006. After graduating, he worked as a management trainee for UPS and as a plant engineer for Easy Gardener, a Jobes company. In 2011 he returned to the family business, Classical Conversations, Inc., to develop a marketing program. He was then appointed CEO of the family-owned company in 2012. In the years since Robert Bortins became CEO of Classical Conversations, the company has grown by 300 percent and become the world’s largest classical homeschooling organization.
Robert is a member of the board of directors of Homeschool Now USA, the Carolinas Rugby Union and the Clemson University Rugby Foundation Board. He is also a member of C12 Group, the largest professional development network of Christian CEOs and executives. Under Robert’s leadership, Classical Conversations has been named a Certified Best Christian Workplace by BCWI for four years in a row. Robert and his wife, April, live in Southern Pines with their two young children and a third on the way in May of 2020. In his free time Robert enjoys coaching rugby and playing golf.
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Robert Bortins, is the CEO of Classical Conversations, which supports classical, Christian homeschoolers in all fifty states and in thirty foreign countries.