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Breaking: Romeike Family granted ‘indefinite deferred status’ and can stay in United States
Politisite.com ^ | 3/4/14

Posted on 03/04/2014 12:09:21 PM PST by SoFloFreeper

Today, a Supervisor with the Department of Homeland Security called a member of our legal team to inform us that the Romeike family has been granted “indefinite deferred status”. This means that the Romeikes can stay in the United States permanently (unless they are convicted of a crime, etc.)

This is an incredible victory that can only be credited to our Almighty God.

We also want to thank those of who spoke up on this issue–including that long ago White House petition. We believe that the public outcry made this possible while God delivered the victory.

Via Home School Legal Defense Association . Michael Farris, chairman for the Home School Legal Defense Association, announced Tuesday afternoon that a supervisor with the Department of Homeland Security said that a Morristown family has been granted “indefinite deferred status.”

Essentially this means that Uwe and Hannelore Romeike and their children can stay in the United States permanently unless they commit a crime or otherwise violate the terms of their status.

The Romeikes immigrated to America from Germany after running afoul of a German law requiring children attend public school or an approved private school offering the state-approved curriculum. The Romeikes, conservative Christians who objected to several parts of the state curriculum, preferred to home school their children.

In refusing to send their children to public school, the Romeikes racked up heavy fines and faced the threat of having their children removed from their home. They left for America before that could happen.

Once in Morristown, they began the long process of seeking political asylum, which was initially granted in 2010, but lost on appeal. In the four years since, the case worked its way to the steps of the Supreme Court which Monday announced it would not hear the case, leaving several of the Romeikes’ supporters in fear that the family would be deported.

Roughly 24 hours later, that was no longer a fear.


TOPICS: Breaking News; Culture/Society; Germany
KEYWORDS: education; german; germany; god; homeschooling; hslda; romeike; truth
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The Lord Almighty has answered our prayers.
1 posted on 03/04/2014 12:09:21 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper
Also reported here: Romeike family attorney gets assurance family can stay
2 posted on 03/04/2014 12:10:31 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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To: SoFloFreeper

Color me shocked.....


3 posted on 03/04/2014 12:10:48 PM PST by capydick (''Life's tough.......it's even tougher if you're stupid.'')
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To: SoFloFreeper

Yay God!


4 posted on 03/04/2014 12:11:24 PM PST by hoagy62 ("Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered..."-Thomas Paine. 1776)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Good news!

Thank You, Jesus.


5 posted on 03/04/2014 12:11:26 PM PST by left that other site
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To: SoFloFreeper

A crime? Do they mean one worse than blowing up the Boston Marathon?


6 posted on 03/04/2014 12:11:29 PM PST by stanne
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To: SoFloFreeper

Obummer did not want us using this as a stick to beat Democrats with during the upcoming elections.

Would have been some REAL bad PR......


7 posted on 03/04/2014 12:11:31 PM PST by ConservativeMan55 (In America, we don't do pin pricks. But sometimes we elect them.)
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To: SoFloFreeper
National Review has picked it up:

The German Home-School Refugees Can Stay

8 posted on 03/04/2014 12:11:38 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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Thanks be to God! This is wonderful news. Take that, SCOTUS!


9 posted on 03/04/2014 12:12:09 PM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: SoFloFreeper

and here:

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2014/03/04/dhs-grants-german-home-schooling-family-permanent-asylum-in-us/


10 posted on 03/04/2014 12:12:21 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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This is an incredible victory that can only be credited to our Almighty God.

Amen and praise the Lord!..................

11 posted on 03/04/2014 12:12:39 PM PST by Red Badger (LIberal is an oxymoron......................)
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To: ConservativeMan55

Perhaps...the fact they took it all the way to the Supreme Court, though, means that they think they CAN do whatever they want.

I don’t think this will win them any votes....it will, however, ENERGIZE some of us into reminding our neighbors how big and bloated the fedzilla has become.


12 posted on 03/04/2014 12:12:58 PM PST by SoFloFreeper
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Amen! I hope Eric Holder doesn’t weigh in.


13 posted on 03/04/2014 12:12:59 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing
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To: SoFloFreeper

i am soooo happy!!!!!!!!!!! yesterday was such a bleak day... thank you, Lord!


14 posted on 03/04/2014 12:13:35 PM PST by latina4dubya (when i have money i buy books... if i have anything left, i buy 6-inch heels and a bottle of wine...)
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To: SoFloFreeper

Every once in a while the good guys win one.


15 posted on 03/04/2014 12:14:34 PM PST by Colonel Kangaroo
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He’s still recovering from his miraculous head wound./s


16 posted on 03/04/2014 12:14:59 PM PST by left that other site
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To: SoFloFreeper

Knock me over with a feather. I can’t believe it. I’d like to think cooler heads prevailed, but the way we’re headed, the cynic in me says an enemy of freedom did this out of strategy.


17 posted on 03/04/2014 12:15:01 PM PST by andyk (I have sworn...eternal hostility against every form of tyranny over the mind of man.)
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To: SoFloFreeper

That’s great!


18 posted on 03/04/2014 12:15:41 PM PST by livius
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Praise God!!


19 posted on 03/04/2014 12:15:57 PM PST by beethovenfan (If Islam is the solution, the "problem" must be freedom.)
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To: Doogle

20 posted on 03/04/2014 12:16:49 PM PST by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated))
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