In May 2012, I left America with my two daughters who were born in New Jersey for Germany. Dreading life in New York City following the financial crisis of 2007 - 2008, and increasingly wary of America’s foreign policy abroad, I put family and children first and returned ‘home’ to my / our German and European roots. What awaited my daughters and me in Baden-Württemberg from on 2014 amounted to violations of our civil and constitutional rights as American citizens abroad. In 2018, we left Germany for Ireland. In 2020, during the European Covid lockdown, we found our way back to America.