Obama’s Aunt Granted Asylum
[Guest post by DRJ]
President Obama’s Kenyan aunt has been granted asylum and can stay in the United States:
“A U.S. immigration court has granted asylum to President Barack Obama’s African aunt, allowing her to stay in the country, her attorneys announced Monday.
The decision was mailed Friday and comes three months after Kenya native Zeituni Onyango, the half-sister of Obama’s late father, testified at a closed hearing in Boston, where she arrived in a wheelchair and two doctors testified in support of her case.
The basis for her asylum request hadn’t been made public. People who seek asylum must show that they face persecution in their homeland on the basis of religion, race, nationality, political opinion or membership in a social group.
Her lawyer, Margaret Wong of Cleveland, said last year that Onyango first applied for asylum “due to violence in Kenya.” The East African nation is fractured by cycles of electoral violence every five years.
In a November interview with The Associated Press, Onyango said she was disabled and was learning to walk again after being paralyzed from Guillain-Barre syndrome, an autoimmune disorder.”
She moved to Boston in 2000 and was ordered deported in 2004, but did not leave and continued to live in public housing.
— DRJ
How much has this women cost the taxpayer? Obama is multimillionaire. Why is the taxpayer funding her?
tim pfister (ceeb9a) — 5/17/2010 @ 8:59 pmImmigration laws? We don’t need no stinkin’ immigration laws!
Hey, lets just ignore those deportion orders. And people wonder why Arizona passed the law they did. It’s not like people were taking our laws seriously.
MU789 (ef0527) — 5/17/2010 @ 9:06 pmBoth Holder and Napolitano said they haven’t read the Arizona law. Well clearly they haven’t read the federal one either.
Arizona Bob (e8af2b) — 5/17/2010 @ 9:30 pmIt’s understandable that they wouldn’t return her to Kenya. Being the aunt of the President of the U.S. would make her a fat target for kidnapping.
That said, I agree with tim pfister that Aunt Zeituni ought to be supported by her family rather than the taxpayer, which would mean that the Obamas ought to be sending her a check, not Uncle Sam.
JVW (08e86a) — 5/17/2010 @ 9:34 pmHeh! Obama could not win on this one. He’s either a nepotist or a traitor to his family. I’m glad he went with the loss that would do good to somebody.
nk (db4a41) — 5/17/2010 @ 9:38 pmSeriously, is anyone surprised? There is no way they would deport the President’s aunt. After all, what would China think? Human rights abuses, indeed.
Dana (1e5ad4) — 5/17/2010 @ 9:43 pmThe following doesn’t really fit the topic per se, but I have to post it because I found it so unpredictable and, in fact, a nice change of pace.
When I first heard about “activists” planning to protest against Lakers coach Phil Jackson’s opinion on the Arizona immigration law — and being somewhat aware of his “lefty leanings” — I immediately thought the demonstrators would be in the mold of Tea-Party, conservative types, and they, in turn, were irked at what I suspected must have been liberal-scold comments from Jackson along the lines of “RACISM!”, “GESTAPO TACTICS!!”, cruel and heartless laws!”
In actuality, such a relief to see a bit of common sense for a change instead of the nonsense and phoniness of all-too-common limousine liberalism (and one doesn’t have to be wealthy to be guilty of that).
Mark (411533) — 5/17/2010 @ 9:48 pmYou know, its easy to complain about the possible undue influence, but really, what if someone kidnapped her and held her for randsom? So on balance i am glad she is in america and i am willing to give everyone involved a mulligan.
A.W. (f97997) — 5/17/2010 @ 11:06 pmFair enough, A.W, but why does it have to be on the government teat, when her nephew is so rich?
gazzer (7c0559) — 5/18/2010 @ 8:37 amIf her nephew were to ask me for advice(which is not going to happen), I would suggest that providing for her support would earn him some really good brownie points. Even I might have a positive thought concerning him.That won’t happen either.
BarSinister (edbc1a) — 5/18/2010 @ 9:24 am“…but really, what if someone kidnapped her and held her for randsom?”
Comment by A.W. — 5/17/2010 @ 11:06 pm
The messiah won’t even help her get out of the projects. You think he’d even take the call?
Matador (ac73ca) — 5/18/2010 @ 12:14 pm