Thread: Obama's illegal aunt seeks asylum

Obama's illegal aunt seeks asylum
'This type of obstinacy and persistence is well known to the family'
Posted: January 28, 2009
9:00 pm Eastern

By Chelsea Schilling
© 2009 WorldNetDaily


Obama's aunt Zeituni Onyang

President Barack Obama's illegal alien aunt has enlisted the help of an immigration lawyer to help her win asylum and stay in the United States.

Margaret Wong and Associates is representing Zeituni Onyango, the 56-year-old Kenyan half-sister of Obama's deceased father, the Cleveland Plain Dealer reports. Onyango and her lawyer are scheduled to attend an immigration hearing in Boston on April 1.

"The judge will be looking at evidence that they may not have been aware of four years ago," Michael Rogers, spokesman for Wong, told the newspaper. "Wong is optimistic. We would have preferred to not conduct this case in the media spotlight, but that's not going to happen."

Onyango, revealed in November to be dwelling on Flaherty Way in a South Boston slum, has been living in the United States illegally, refusing to leave the U.S. for her Kenyan homeland after a judge rejected her request for asylum in 2004.

Boston Housing Authority spokesman Bill McGonagle told the Boston Herald she received a small stipend for working six hours a week as a volunteer resident health advocate in her complex.

"Auntie Zeituni" made a $260 campaign contribution to her nephew's presidential bid from a work address in the city. She proudly displayed photos of Obama, including some that appear as old as 25 years, inside her first-floor apartment, McGonagle said.

The Bush administration issued a directive requiring high-level approval before agents could arrest fugitive immigrants on Oct. 31, the Associated Press reported. Immigration and Customs Enforcement documents reveal U.S. officials were concerned about implications of detaining Onyango in the days before the election.

"The Homeland Security Department censored parts of the document before turning it over to the AP, citing privacy and law enforcement reasons for withholding some of the information, including the name of the person who sent the e-mail," the AP revealed. "It also blacked out the names of recipients of the directive, making it impossible to determine whether it was sent to anyone outside the department or outside government."

ICE spokeswoman Kelly Nantel said the order was lifted by the end of November.

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Shelli Baker of Boston's WROL 950 AM told WND she went to the Boston apartment with Philip Berg after the election. While Onyango did not answer the door, she said something curious happened.

"I knocked on her door, and a nice young African-American greeted me. He was very happy. He saw my camera. I said, 'Can you tell me, is she still here?' And he said, 'No, she went away with some men in a car about a week ago. It got too hot about these elections with her nephew.'"

Baker asked the man if Onyango would be back. He replied, "I think so."

She then asked him a strategic question: "Are you all rejoicing that her nephew born in Kenya was elected?"

He responded, "Oh yes. We had a party
about that."

Baker said the apartment management told her they knew Onyango would be back, despite her 4-year-old deportation orders.

"Evidently this type of obstinacy and persistence is very well known to the Obama family," Baker told WND. "And they're very proud of it."

Now the Plain Dealer has revealed that Onyango left her home in Boston public housing to escape media coverage in December.

Onyango traveled to Cleveland, Ohio, and hired Wong to assist her in her fight to remain in the U.S.

According to the report, Wong said Onyango stayed with relatives in an African immigrant community while in Cleveland. Rogers said she returned to Boston later in December.

On Dec. 17, an immigration judge stayed an order to deport Onyango.

The judge reopened her case for asylum on Dec. 30, a spokeswoman for the U.S. Executive Office of Immigration Review said.

Earlier this month, Onyango attended Obama's swearing-in ceremony and an inaugural ball at Washington's Renaissance Mayflower Hotel, a historic luxury hotel, the Associated Press reported. Rogers claims she never met with the president during inaugural festivities. She arrived with her immigration lawyer as her guest.
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What possible excuse would she have for asylum? Isn't Odingo in charge now and isn't he family? I mean, cmon! DEPORT her already!

It's called "Special Treatment"
Of course Obama is going to go against the Law and get her to stay here, like all hypocrites do.

It's not fair to others.

OEN HEARING IS ENOUGH

she was ordered deported in 2004. nothing has changed in Kenya that would or should be allow her to stay now.

and hearing that bush signed the letter saying ICE had to get approval first before getting high profile people is a damn disgrace. he does something half way nice for the border guards, then steps in to stop law being enforced. what a MORON

and then she gives to the campaign. isnt that a violation of the law for someone not a citizen to donate?

They will never deport a president's family member. PROVE YOU ARE A CITIZEN OBAMA. I hope to heck he gets found out about and thrown out of office.

Originally Posted by miguelina

What possible excuse would she have for asylum? Isn't Odingo in charge now and isn't he family? I mean, cmon! DEPORT her already!

Yes and No.

As part of the "deal" for Odigna to end his terrorism and slaughter of innocent Kenyan Christians, it was arranged for him to be the "co-Prime Minister".

Can you guess who took part in this little arrangement?

Obama has promised to restore the RULE OF LAW many times.

If he is sincere, he will immediately execute the deportation order on his aunt.

If he is a jive talking liar, he will not deport his aunt.

Anybody want to bet on this?

Do you believe Obama's mouth running about the Rule of Law is genuine or is it jive talk?

Any bets?

W

Originally Posted by ALIPAC

Obama has promised to restore the RULE OF LAW many times.

If he is sincere, he will immediately execute the deportation order on his aunt.

If he is a jive talking liar, he will not deport his aunt.

Anybody want to bet on this?

Do you believe Obama's mouth running about the Rule of Law is genuine or is it jive talk?

Any bets?

W

It just depends upon which version of the Rule of Law obama is talking about.

If we are talking about what the Rule of Law is supposed to be, and how it is applied under the system of government we are intended to have in this country, then he is a jive talking liar W.

On the other hand, if we are talking about the Rule of Law under the system of government obama is intending to impose on this country, then he is speaking the truth.

and hearing that bush signed the letter saying ICE had to get approval first before getting high profile people is a damn disgrace.

I think Bush was trying to be nice to stop the War Crimes issue.
He was way to gracious to Obama after all that was being said about him by that side.

Originally Posted by butterbean

They will never deport a president's family member. PROVE YOU ARE A CITIZEN OBAMA. I hope to heck he gets found out about and thrown out of office.

That's right! It's an illegal trying to help an illegal family member!