Homeland Security Grants “Indefinite Deferred Status” to German Family Whose Asylum Appeal Justice Department Opposed and Supreme Court Rejected

The Supreme Court has
declined to hear an appeal for asylum by the Romeike family of
Germany, which fled to the United States in the late 2000s and
actually received
asylum in 2010 before the Department of Justice stepped in to
object, arguing that Germany’s ban on homeschooling did not
constitute persecution, a requirement for asylum. Nevertheless,

according to the Homeschool Legal Defense Association, which
helped the Romeike family in their legal fight, a “supervisor” from
the Department of Homeland Security informed the family’s attorneys
that they’d been granted “indefinite deferred status.”

So why did the Obama Administration oppose the asylum request?
It may have been seeking to hold the line on more stringent
requirements for asylum, or it may have been seeking to cut off
attempts to argue that homeschooling is a right. No matter its
intentions, the effect of the feds first opposing the granting of
asylum and then granting that same family an “indefinite” status is
to enforce the idea that,
in immigration as in other policy domains, the rule of men
trumps the rule of law.

Reason TV highlighted the case of the Romeike family, asking
whether homeschooling is a universal right, which you can watch
below: