Jessica Fargen, Boston Herald, April 1, 2009
President Barack Obama’s aunt, who has been living illegally in the U.S. for years, can stay in the United States until next year while she awaits a decision on her fight against deportation, according to a spokesman for her attorney.
Zeituni Onyango, 56, the half-sister of Obama’s late father, was ordered to leave the country in 2004, but instead made a quiet life in the South Boston public housing projects.
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A hearing on an appeal of her deportation was scheduled for 8:30 a.m. today at the John F. Kennedy Federal Building in Boston, which houses the Boston Immigration Court. The proceedings were closed to the public.
Immigration Judge Leonard Shapiro scheduled a second hearing on her case for Feb. 4, 2010.
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Onyango has a lengthy history with the U.S. Executive Office of Immigration Review.
She first visited the U.S. in 1975 when she was 23 and has made several trips between Kenya and the U.S. since then, Rogers said. She received a social security card in 2001, he said. In 2002, she applied for political asylum due to the violence in her native Kenya, Rogers said. In 2004, a federal immigration judge rejected her request and ordered her to leave the country, Rogers said.
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Comments
One wonders how many extentions she’s going to get. If nothing else is done, I suspect she’ll get one every year for the rest of her life.
“until next year while she awaits a decision on her fight against deportation”
Another YEAR, already? She applied once. Denied. What was that quaint saying about ‘justice delayed’? Yes, the American citizens are being denied our right to justice, again.
Then in 2004, ignoring her orders to leave, she instead chose a life of crime, becoming a fugitive from justice. And just how did she manage to avoid the law while still qualifying for public housing? Looks like any American citizen who might be on the waiting list for that same public housing will just have to wait a little longer, another year at least. Illegal aliens, most particularly those wanted by the law, seem to have the stronger claim.
‘…on the basis of race, color, creed, religion, national origin, alienage, citizenship status, gender (sex), age, marital status, disability, prior record of arrest or conviction (except as permitted by law), and sexual orientation is prohibited…’
Are the words meant to guarantee equal treatment under the law, or to specify who will receive preferential treatment? Let me see, hmm…Auntie is black, disabled, wanted by the law, a donor to the democrats, on welfare, using public housing, public health care, somehow has a social security number and is an illegal alien to boot. Not to mention her not-so-secret millionaire ‘relative’ who won’t contribute a dime for her care. Heh. Meets all the requirements for most revered ‘super-citizen’ status! (sarcasm intended)
Hasn’t she committed enough crimes, yet? Based on past behavior, she expects the American citizen to pay her way through life, so she should have it…and as a proven flight risk, it should be spent waiting out this next year from the more appropriate public housing. Behind bars.
The longer she’s allowed to stay here, the harder it will be to kick her out. But no matter; she’s never going to be forced to leave now. Not now that her nephew is president. And of course expect the MSM to keep generally mum about this flagrant violation of our nation’s laws. Nor expect to hear any discussion of why Kenya is such a loathsome place that this woman would rather live in a housing project (which we are constantly told is an oppressive breeding ground of crime and degeneracy) than go back to (gasp!) Kenya.
Once again, as I have posted numerous times on this site when the US government uses the word “temporary” it’s just a euphemism for the word “permanent”. George Orwell would be proud.
The AmRen summary missed the really important quote:
“Ms. Onyango’s case is being treated just like any other case before an immigration judge,” Mateen said.
Yep - and that’s the problem. This is how long it takes to deport so many illegals in the US. As Mark Krikorian at CIS likes to say, “it ain’t over ‘til the alien wins.”
By the time she reaches her next hearing, Aunt Zeituni will have been here at least 9 years illegally - 6 years after her first deportation order.
What we need is summary deportation. No proof of citizenship? Sayonara!
Can’t they find a room for her in the white house?
To Edward:
Excellent post.
I guess the only other thing I can think of is this: Why is it that everytime ol’ Barry Obama’s family is discussed, the conversation includes a litany of half-this and half-that?
How does the current social discourse on Obama make continuous reference to the man’s father (a term I use only for its biological definition) in such glorious, rainbow-hued terms?
Apparently he fathered several children with various women, then made little to no effort to stay with any of the women or support the children he sired. I recall reading additional articles describing the father’s problem with alcohol and his boorish behavior.
How do we hold this man up as anything other than an example of how NOT to be a man of good character? Oops, my fault…he’s black. All is forgiven.
Pretty weird considering her nephewie is in the White House. No doubt there are many more of these since immigration control is non existant. Anyway, great going auntie- I’m sure those marxist fools in Mass will hapily pay to upgrade your status.
I fail to understand how she dould receive a Soc.Sec. card BEFORE she applied for asylum.
And the article fails to state HOW LONG she has been here. There seems to be a lot of mystery about her case. It says she has a “legthy history” here, going back to 1973, but it doesn’t tell us any more.
I trust Judge Lenny Shapiro will handle this case competently and impartially. That was kind of him to grant her a year’s extension. By then, there may be other distractions in the news and she will be forgotten. If not, she can always get another year.
We are no longer a nation of laws.
So bizarre, letting this illegal have a Social Security Number, and public housing, and public assistance. Bizarre, considering the treatment of whites who come here.
Just one example is the Au Pair one of our cousins in Lafayette had one year. The girl was from France, and had committed the unforgivable sin of having been born blonde. The immigration people monitored her movements like she was some sort of terrorist. The amount of attention they paid this pretty schoolgirl from a nice family in the Ile-de-France could have been used to monitor and deport a whole village-full of Guatemalans. She was denied re-entry into America the next year. I think Immigration was terrified she would marry some Cajun boy (and a great many of us Cajun moms were hoping one of our sons would marry such a sweet, beautiful, hard-working girl).
This is only one example. My family alone could write a whole book. It would be a book about insane anti-white bias in America’s immigration ‘system’.
On the other side of the coin, when I go down to Lafayette, I sometimes run into a woman from Cote d’Ivoire, when I hit the Patiserrie for Fig Pockets and a Doberge cake. I’ve talked to her a few times, and I’ve never heard about ANY problems with immigration for her black self. I’ve wondered what she did for money. Now, after reading about ‘Aunt Zeituni’, I’m beginning to have a clue…
Don’t you need to WORK before you can get a Soc.Sec. Number?
I fail to understand how she dould receive a Soc.Sec. card BEFORE she applied for asylum.
She is black, she is related to the now president, the social security offices are run and staffed by blacks…What did you think would happen?? she would get refused a number?
when the US government uses the word “temporary” it’s just a euphemism for the word “permanent”. George Orwell would be proud.
Right!! has anyone ever seen a ‘temporary tax’ on anything suspended??
