Posted on 11/07/2008 10:16:55 AM PST by AuntB
Caught up in a controversy over her immigration status, Barack Obama’s aunt hasn’t been seen at the South Boston housing project where she lives for days, neighbors say.
Zeituni Onyango, a quiet 56-year-old Kenyan native, lived in total obscurity until a week ago when The Times of London reported that she was Obama’s aunt. She is the half-sister of Obama’s father, Barack Obama Sr. and is believed to be the “Aunti Zeituni” in Obama’s memoir, “Dreams From My Father.”
Two women who know Onyango and live in the same housing complex off West Broadway said they hadn’t seen Onyango in four days - about the time it was revealed that she was living in the United States illegally.
When asked how she felt having the president-elect’s aunt living next door, one neighbor, Sasha, who voted for Obama yesterday, replied: “I think it’s cool.”
“The president’s family lives right there. That’s cool,” said Sasha, 28, who didn’t want to give her last name.
Her friend, who also didn’t want to give her name and wore an Obama pin, described Onyango as a “very honest” woman, who talked fondly of her children and told stories about Kenya.
“She has a lot of knowledge,” she said.
No one answered the door at Onyango’s Boston Housing Authority apartment inside 111 Flaherty Way this morning.
Onyango had previously shunned media attention and told reporters that she would give interviews after the election. Since then, though, the Associated Press has reported that in 2004 an immigration judge rejected her application for asylum and she was ordered to be deported.
A BHA official told the Herald this weekend that the agency was never notified of a deportation order issued for Onyango, who has been living in federal-and state-funded public housing since 2003.
Auntie Z knows too much and talks too much
buh bye
Somebody call the police. Do they have a Marcy Park in Boston?
Her black and red dress was at the cleaners.
Living in a Lake Shore drive high rise..
fugetaboutit...
I’m sure she’s quite comfortable, secluded, but living it up.
What does Aunt Zeituni do for a living?
Anybody check the Charles River?
Fort Marcey Park???
I’m sure she’s being shaken down as we speak. Or more likely, she’s been given plenty of money so she doesn’t tell everyone her nephew was actually born in Kenya.
Auntie’s in the olive oil business.
Check under the bed in the Lincoln bedroom.
Cement orthopedic shoes...
What does Aunt Zeituni do for a living?
Come on, that’s easy - She collects checks from the US and Mass. govts.
Maybe she is at Grandma’s funeral?
Hold on to your hat Aunt Petunia and repeat after me.
Born in the USAaaaaaa.
She’s laying low until BO can ram her immigration paperwork through ICE.
She’s been relocated, given new papers, and all is well.
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