Posted on 03/04/2014 3:49:39 PM PST by Nachum
WASHINGTON – A German home-schooling family facing deportation following the Supreme Court’s refusal to hear their appeal is being allowed to stay in the U.S.
The Department of Homeland Security has granted the family “indefinite deferred status,” their attorney confirmed to Fox News.
That means the Romeike family, who claim the German government is persecuting them because they want to raise their children in accordance with their Christian beliefs, can stay in the United States without the threat of being forced return to their home country, the family’s legal team told Fox News.
The family moved to Morristown, Tenn., in 2008 after facing fines and threats for refusing to send their kids to a state-approved school in Germany, which is required by law in that country. If the Romeikes had stayed in Germany, they risked losing custody of their children.
Initially, the family was granted asylum in 2010 based on religious freedom grounds, but the Obama administration decided to appeal that decision, and won. The Supreme Court on Monday declined to hear the family's appeal.
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I agree. It seems to me they are giving them a pass to bolster giving illegals passes as well.
Hafta agree with your cynicism. Something smells here. That decision could be reversed tonight, doors broken down and quietly hauled off to the airport.
Good for them....but not so good for the rest of us. BO and his minions continue to attack our Constitutional rights.
Now is zero going to ignore the court again and still have them deported?
Election year...It cost the administration nothing to do this, but the bad press had they been deported could have hurt the Democrats. DHS capitulated because it was politically expedient to do so.
Thanks be to God. I’m sure there has been a LOT of praying going on for this dear family.
Obama wanted to deport this family, who had fled Germany because the German government wanted to put the parents in jail for violating Hitler's ban on homeschooling.
In Germany in 1938, Adolf Hitler outlawed homeschooling. He said “Give me a child when he’s seven and he’s mine forever.” Source: http://www.brusselsjournal.com/node/139
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