On March 4, Homeland Security suddenly in effect reversed course. After spending years contesting the asylum that had been granted by an immigration judge to a German Homeschooling family in 2010, DHS decided to let that family stay in the U.S. after winning a legal victory that would have enabled them to deport the family. If Uwe and Hannelore Romeike and their six children were deported to Germany, the German government had already fined them and would break up the family had they continued to homeschool.  The Obama administration might have been worried about the adverse publicity that would have resulted. More than 125,000 people signed the online White House petition that I told you about in my April 2013 blog posting about this case. The Romeike family began homeschooling in 2006 in Germany for religious reasons. Homeschooling is against the law in Germany and they had already been fined and were being threatened with losing custody of their children. So they...(Read Full Post)