German Home School Family That Was Denied SCOTUS Review Gets Deferred Status From DHS

Fox News reports that in a surprising development yesterday, one day after the U.S. Supreme Court denied certiorari in the home schooling asylum case of Romeike v. Holder (see prior posting), the Department of Homeland Security granted "indefinite deferred status" to the Romeike family.  This means that the German family which home schools its children largely because of the family's Christian religious beliefs will not be deported back to Germany where laws prohibit home schooling.  The Romeike family who moved to Tennessee in 2008 were originally granted asylum in 2010, but government appeals of the immigration judge's ruling led to a reversal.