We’ve covered the hostile government treatment of homeschooling families in Germany a few times here, and today a judge has granted one of those families political asylum in the United States.

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 “crime” of homeschooling.

Judge Burman said in his decision that, “The rights being violated here are basic human rights that no country has a right to violate.”

Judge Burman also expressed concern that while Germany is a democratic country and an ally, its policy of persecuting homeschoolers is “repellent to everything we believe as Americans.”

The persecution of homeschoolers in Germany has been intensifying over the past several years. Such families are regularly fined thousands of dollars, threatened with imprisonment, or have the custody of their children taken away simply because they choose to home educate.

Here: U.S. Judge Grants Political Asylum to German Homeschoolers.