Sometimes there is good news. Uwe and Hannelore Romeike, a Christian family, fled to the United States from Germany in 2008 because they believed they should homeschool their children instead of subjecting them to the secular propaganda of German schools. After years of legal battles the Supreme Court refused to hear their case for asylum. They thought they would have to return to Germany where the state would ultimately take custody of their children if they did not put them in German schools. In less than 24 hours after the Supreme Court decision a supervisor at the Department of Homeland Security told them through their legal team that they had been granted “indefinite deferred status,” which means that the proceedings against them have been deferred and they can stay in the United States.
“The family has claimed Germany’s laws violate international human rights standards, but the U.S. Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals concluded last year that U.S. law does not grant asylum to ‘every victim of unfair treatment.’” Yet this case is a case involving a basic freedom involving parental control over the education of their children.
The turnaround was highly unexpected. “As long as we can live at peace here, we are happy” said Romeike.
Of course, a good resolution does not mean that America is turning around. Its trajectory is still prophetically headed against liberty on all fronts. Why homeland security took approximately five years to get to this point is inexplicable except that “The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD, as the rivers of water: he turneth it whithersoever he will.” Proverbs 21:1