Obama's aunt from Kenya - living ILLEGALLY in US for 5 years

[calfoxwc]

AP: Obama aunt from Kenya living in US illegally By EILEEN SULLIVAN and ELLIOT SPAGAT, AP

posted: 48 MINUTES AGOcomments: 3PrintShareText SizeAAAWASHINGTON -Barack Obama's aunt, a Kenyan woman who has been quietly living in public housing in Boston, is in the United States illegally after an immigration judge rejected her request for asylum four years ago, The Associated Press has learned.

Zeituni Onyango, 56, referred to as "Aunti Zeituni" in Obama's memoir, was instructed to leave the United States by a U.S. immigration judge who denied her asylum request, a person familiar with the matter told the AP late Friday. This person spoke on condition of anonymity because no one was authorized to discuss Onyango's case.

Information about the deportation case was disclosed and confirmed by two separate sources, one of them a federal law enforcment official. The information they made available is known to officials in the federal government, but the AP could not establish whether anyone at a political level in the Bush administration or in the McCain campaign had been involved in its release.

Onyango's refusal to leave the country would represent an administrative, non-criminal violation of U.S. immigration law, meaning such cases are handled outside the criminal court system. Estimates vary, but many experts believe there are more than 10 million such immigrants in the United States.

The AP could not reach Onyango immediately for comment. No one answered the telephone number listed in her name late Friday. It was unclear why her request for asylum was rejected in 2004.

Onyango is not a relative whom Obama has discussed in campaign appearances and, unlike Obama's father and grandmother, is not someone who has been part of the public discussion about his personal life.

A spokeswoman for U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement, Kelly Nantel, said the government does not comment on an individual's citizenship status or immigration case.

Onyango's case — coming to light just days before the presidential election — led to an unusual nationwide directive within Immigrations and Customs Enforcement requiring any deportations prior to Tuesday's election to be approved at least at the level of ICE regional directors, the U.S. law enforcement official told the AP.

The unusual directive suggests that the Bush administration is sensitive to the political implications of Onyango's case coming to light so close to the election.

Kenya is in eastern Africa between Somalia and Tanzania. The country has been fractured in violence in recent years, including a period of two months of bloodshed after December 2007 that killed 1,500 people.

The disclosure about Onyango came just one day after Obama's presidential campaign confirmed to the Times of London that Onyango, who has lived quietly in public housing in South Boston for five years, was Obama's half aunt on his father's side.

It was not immediately clear how Onyango might have qualified for public housing with a standing deportation order.

[calfoxwc]

Now, you know Obama knew that. But breaking the law is OKAY for liberal marxists who assoiciate with criminals, terrorists, and racist hatemongering mentors...

[Mr. T]

Left Wing Fascists Hate free speech

 

example: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNEIprfXXqU

[calfoxwc]

So, it's a true legit story, and naturally Shepbites is po'd it refects badly on Obama, so

he tries to change the subject to McCain.

 

Then, later, he will complain to moderator(s) about how he can't have a serious discussion.

 

It's like trying to be on a board with KGB agents or something...

 

ShePutin?

[SiperBowl]

actually its like telling a spoiled kid no for the 100th time.

 

Shep dosn't need time out he needs a butt kickin.

 

Now to get back to the issue at hand, it dosn't amaze me that there are not more of the obama family members here, they probably have to live off of welfare because there Millionaire Politician relative is to stuck on himself and thinks they are beneath him.

[We need Tom Tupa]

This is exactly the problem with too many goofy posts; people dont believe the true ones.

 

On the other hand, it was kind of funny to see how Shep treated the story.

[Mr. T]

I have read this on a couple of different newspaper websites. It Is True.

[Mr. T]

Obama's aunt in 'immigration row'

5 hours 59 mins ago

 

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Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama has claimed he knows nothing about the immigration status of an aunt who has been reported to be living illegally in the US.

 

A news outlet has suggested that Mr Obama's aunt was ordered to leave the country four years ago by an immigration judge who rejected her request for asylum from her native Kenya.

 

Zeituni Onyango, 56, who Mr Obama calls Auntie Zeituni in one of his memoirs, has been living quietly in a public housing complex in Boston and is the half-sister of Mr Obama's late father.

 

Obama campaign spokeswoman Jen Psaki said: "Senator Obama has no knowledge of her status but obviously believes that any and all appropriate laws should be followed."

 

The campaign questioned the timing of the disclosure just three days before the election.

 

David Axelrod, Mr Obama's chief media strategist, said: "I think people are suspicious about stories that surface in the last 72 hours of a national campaign. And I think they're ... going to put it in that context."

 

The story was attributed to two unnamed sources, one a law enforcement official, but said it could not establish whether anyone at a political level in the Bush administration or the McCain campaign had been involved in its release.

 

It said Ms Onyango's failure to leave the country would be an administrative, non-criminal violation of immigration law. Such cases are handled outside the criminal court system.

 

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20081101/twl ... f21e0.html

[Koa]

I'm glad you Conservatives actually enjoy discussing the real issues. A recent poll did conclude that 60% of voters are most concerned with Aunt Jemima's immigration status.

[We need Tom Tupa]

Koa must be new here.

[Guest Aloysius]

Yeah. But he cares about foreign policy, so I'm really hoping he sticks around.

[calfoxwc]

But Obama, today, says that he didn't know her status.

 

Yeah. another lie. Either that, or he

really is a dumbass totally unqualified nominee.

[Mr. T]

All in the Obama Family

 

[Mr. T]

And whatever has happened to her?

 

Has she been deported? or has she left on her own?

[yeahDAisafuturehofer...]

But Obama, today, says that he didn't know her status.

 

Yeah. another lie. Either that, or he

really is a dumbass totally unqualified nominee.

 

Obama didn't lie when he didn't know Rev. Wrights radical views, when he thought Ayers was "respectable", when he didn't know his aunt was here illegally, and when he didn't know the Illinois Governor whose name I can't spell was pretty corrupt.

 

I know your evil, Nazi, hate mongering, racist, and Marxist mind would come to the anti-American conclusion that Obama has either lied a few times or is completely clueless about very obvious things that surround him. If you would open your eyes to the truth and quit believing everything the government forces you to believe you would find out Obama is actually the victim here!