In a post on X, the senator said she was “glad ICE has granted a 1-year stay of removal.” Blackburn had previously sent a letter urging Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to “allow the Romeike family to continue their lives” in Tennessee.
Blackburn’s office did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday morning. An ICE spokeswoman also did not immediately respond to queries seeking information about the reported stay of removal.
The reason for the sudden potential deportation of the Romeike family has been unclear. Kevin Boden, an attorney with the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) and the director of HSLDA International, told CNA last month that the family’s possible ejection from the country had come without warning.
“They were basically given four weeks to come back,” Boden said. “They [didn’t] know what [was] going to happen in that meeting. They [didn’t] know if [they were] going to be forced to leave.”
In their letter last week urging the DOJ to refrain from deporting the family, the U.S. representatives called the threat of ejection “as inexplicable as it is unconscionable.”
“Since their arrival to the United States, the members of the Romeike family have successfully assimilated into their local community and the fabric of American life,” they wrote. “Uwe, the father, works at a Christian university. The youngest two children were born and raised here. The older Romeike children have even gotten married and have had their own children.”
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